How to Use heartbeat in a Sentence

heartbeat

noun

• The patient had a rapid heartbeat.
• I'd accept a job offer from that company in a heartbeat.
• One last check of the ears, the throat, the glands, the lungs, the heartbeat, and the you-know-whats.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2023
• The Braves then were part of the heartbeat of Black Atlanta.
  — John Blake, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• The Tkachuk brothers will again be the U.S. heartbeats.
  — Michael Russo, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
• In Ohio and it, the heartbeat bill would limit it to about six weeks.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
• The heartbeat of the man who received the first heart transplant.
  — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
• The clear blue sky went grey, then black, in what seemed like a few heartbeats.
  — Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
• The rolling groove, the perfect rhythm, the heartbeat of this band is Flea in every way.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• But the heartbeat of the show, says McClure, is the sound that provides rhythm and movement to the text.
  — Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• Will be the heartbeat of a team that can challenge St. Mary's again for the 4A title.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2021
• Hands raised and backs bent, the dancers moved as one — a visible heartbeat in the center of the hall.
  — Kayla J. Dunn, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The idea with the music was world breaking and to give a soul heartbeat of Lucia.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
• Just a few weeks later, Watts, The Stones’ beloved heartbeat, died at age 80.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2021
• But the heartbeat, as Huber says, is still the teaching.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2022
• Clayton Kershaw, after all, is still the face of the franchise, the heartbeat of the team.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• To follow the verbs in the poem alone—to have, to slurp, to make, to sound like, to eat—is to listen to the heartbeat of the poem.
  — Rowan Ricardo Phillips, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Besides that, Dre’s the heartbeat of our defense, Fred and him.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• But despite the hurt from the loss, Wolfe knows there are a lot of teams that would switch places with the Bulldogs in a heartbeat.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2022
• All of these things can change in a heartbeat, and your business will still have one thing: its name.
  — Luke Lintz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Look for signs in yourself such as a fast heartbeat or sweaty palms.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• From these, the whales might be able to sense her heartbeat quickening.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
• The chemistry between Clem and Kieran is the heartbeat of our film.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 May 2023
• Willie Munson was the heartbeat of pool in Milwaukee for the last 60 years.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2023
• Leading the charge as the heartbeat of the team is the crew chief: the eyes and ears of the day-to-day operations surrounding the team.
  — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
• My heartbeat thrummed in my ears as static danced in the background of the transatlantic call.
  — Daniel Miller Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Thus, there is great concern that the heartbeat of Hallyu will cease.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 June 2022
• But these two men had names, and souls, and heartbeats, and fingerprints.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• The pulse-pounding sequence plays out to the thrum of Foggy's struggling heartbeat after Matt's best friend was hit by gunfire.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2025
• According to the Mayo Clinic, arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat that happens when the heart's electrical signals don’t work properly.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025