[
US
/ˈpæɫpəteɪtɪŋ/
]
[ UK /pˈælpɪtˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /pˈælpɪtˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having a slight and rapid trembling motion
my palpitating heart
palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions
How To Use palpitating In A Sentence
- One palpitating report indicated that the “blue-eyed Queen took on a storybook aura” during a dinner at the Williamsburg Inn and that the prince received a greeting “very much like bobbysox squealing.” Queen Elizabeth Is Coming To Virginia
- Knight, somewhat blamably, keenly enjoyed sparring with the palpitating mobile creature, whose excitable nature made any such thing a species of cruelty. A Pair of Blue Eyes
- On them too was the drowse of blood-intimacy, calves sucking and hens running together in droves, and young geese palpitating in the hand while the food was pushed down their throttle. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
- But nothing could have exceeded the loneliness of that shore and backland, palpitating under the flogging of a tropical sun. Moran of the Lady Letty
- As grandmas go into palpitating convulsions of disbelief, and all of contemporary society looks down at me from their pedestals of purity, let me just state that I'm not average.
- THERE I was, heart palpitating after Laois minors' injury time equaliser against Westmeath in Croke Park last Sunday, but still there was work to be done.
- She sat bolt upright in bed, her heart palpitating quickly and her breathing in a frantic state.
- my palpitating heart
- Where I live, there are lots of folks palpitating at 325 beats a minute.
- She could almost hear his own heart palpitating wildly in his chest, and without knowing it, she put her hand over his heart to feel it.