[ UK /pˈʌlse‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
    The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it
  2. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
    the city pulsated with music and excitement
  3. produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
    pulse waves
    a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube
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How To Use pulsate In A Sentence

  • Visitors step into a dark, cavernous room where neon red, green and blue flashes pulsate from video slots. O'Malley, gamblers praise Md.'s first slots casino at its grand opening
  • If the Universe pulsated then during the contraction he thought that time might run backward.
  • But the image of the falling man seemed to pulsate, flashing black and white on her retina. THE SCAR
  • Fuseli's pictures pulsate with authentic depictions of lust, fear, violence and death.
  • By night, its harbor area resembles Ibiza's West End, with multi-story nightclubs dominating rows of streets that pulsate with house music while beautiful people dance the night away. Richard Powell: Alanya: St Tropez of Turkey
  • The brain that first conceived the thought must burst in anguish, the heart that pulsated with hellish joy must cease to beat, the hand that pulled the first laniard must be palsied, before the wicked act begun in Charleston on the 13th of April, 1861, is avenged. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865
  • Intensely expressive, she pulsates with angst in contractions, whips up her leg like a command, distorts her body into a stylized, modernist geometry.
  • The Thames, its bridges and the Palace of Westminster dominate scenes that pulsate with bright colour.
  • Their powerful physicality pulsated with life and soul, an effect these artists achieved through their use of color.
  • I ask Klinck to assume the position, and I hit him as hard as I can, not stopping until my hand pulsates like a wounded, cartoon appendage.
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