How to Use coursing in a Sentence

coursing

noun

• So the power coursing through that portion of the lines was cut.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Kritsky said the coursing of male cicadas is now peaking around the low to mid-70s.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 16 June 2021
• Babs and Riley were entered in the outlaw events (for lure coursing and rat hunt).
  — Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019
• There’s zero doubt someone has to feel rodeo coursing through their bloodstream to sign up.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• The United States scored early, but France did not wilt, the rhythm of the game beating ever faster, its pulse racing and its blood coursing.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2019
• In Baja California Sur, a man was killed when his car was swept away in the coursing water.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023
• Releasing the brake sends the engine's full power coursing through the all-wheel-drive system, which shuffles torque to all four wheels.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2020
• Beyond the price tag, plans for high-speed rail coursing under, over and through the region’s hills and canyons raised questions of practicality.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• The latest storms have sent floodwater coursing through canals and ditches and flowing across farmland toward the old lake bottom.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• The conductor Bertrand de Billy led a coursing, richly detailed and colorful account of the score.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• The jet stream coursing between these clashing air masses has swept a series of storm systems through Texas, Oklahoma and up into the Midwest.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2024
• In the central city of Deir al-Balah, the storm brought cold winds and flooded a shelter area behind a hospital, sending torrents of water coursing between the tents.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023
• The deal, which all three tribes have now approved, marks a historic milestone for Indigenous nations that have fought for decades for their fair share of the water coursing through their ancestral lands.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• The communities scattered through the Appalachian Mountains are familiar with flooding, with water spilling out of the creeks coursing through the area.
  — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• Fluid lights undulated on the field surface, mimicking the coursing of blood.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2021
• Thursday, a very significant slice of that age group already has one vaccine or another coursing through their veins.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
• Hardware sends electrons coursing throughout the world and into our fingertips.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• White supremacy shows up now in racist fliers tossed into front yards, in small rallies that quickly form and dissipate and in torrents of vile chatter coursing through online forums.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• Lin, who has a degree in bioinformatics, uses a circle motif that likens the four central characters to cells viewed on a microscope slide, and compares the coursing of blood through veins to people’s transit through city streets.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• Look, Wall Street often doesn’t mind propping up money-losing startups, so long as there’s a good amount of cash coursing through the operation and some kind of well-articulated path to profitability.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• But there was Taylor on Saturday night, trotting back out of the locker room and onto the Indianapolis sideline, pacing back and forth like a gladiator ready to be unleashed, refusing to give in to the pain coursing through his ankle.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
• These flavours are perhaps heightened by the adrenaline rush coursing through our systems, having just seen a black bear scramble down a tree, landing near us with a thunderous thump, and, thankfully, racing away in the opposite direction.
  — Julian Manning, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2023
• But, the lengthy and contentious process to arrive at this version underscores the deep division and political tension coursing through education policy in Virginia and around the country.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Cold water coursing through mountain canyons with forested banks are all necessary components for creating complex structural salmon habitats.
  — Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
• His albums assembled the bones of rock and roll into an idiosyncratic style coursing with disbelief at just about every aspect of the American zeitgeist: hippies, cars, college, drugs, California, and, eventually, yuppies.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2023
• Oshima’s film teases out the homoeroticism coursing beneath the environment (and coursing through many a war movie, for that matter), in the process commenting on two different cultures that express such feelings through denial and brutality.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024