How to Use pulsation in a Sentence
pulsation
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That point shows, say, where a heart cell is in its pulsation cycle.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2023
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This causes the light bouncing back and forth to change its pulsation rate.
—NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
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Slow down a pulsation far enough, draw it out long enough, and the brain will start filling in the expanses with cracks and patterns.
—Vulture, 30 Sep. 2022
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By measuring the pulsation of the carotid artery and the jugular vein, the system calculates the wearer’s heart rate and blood pressure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2023
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The process generates a pulsation of Min proteins that moves back and forth between the cellular antipodes over the course of a minute.
—Adam Mann, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
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When guards refused to move him, the suit says, Sweate tried to lessen the effect of the light’s pulsations by covering the fixture with damp toilet paper.
—Mike Hendricks, kansascity.com, 27 June 2017
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Choose between three pulsation patterns with this sleek black brush: clean, massage and whiten.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2023
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Night-time pulsations on Earth tend to happen at higher latitudes and are linked to the northern and southern lights.
—Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
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These sound waves travel from within the star to create pulsation patterns at their surfaces.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2020
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That pulsation rate, as well as their brightness, can determine their distance from Earth.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2019
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Red supergiants are known to develop such pulsations in the denouement of their life.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 21 July 2023
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There are times when none of that matters — when Catán’s music and the full force of the Met’s commitment help the audience forget all the footnotes and just sink into the tropical steam and lilting pulsations.
—Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
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Its pulsations can shake loose dirt and makeup residue from underneath her pores, according to the brand, and Rodriguez describes these pulses as gentle and soothing.
—Barbara Booth, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
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Their thoughts to their mouth to pulsations of air molecules to a vibrating membrane inside a hole in your skull to bones going clickety-click to waves of electrical activity to thoughts?
—Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 May 2018
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This cult-favorite cleansing brush is a favorite with beauty experts and influencers alike, since uses T-Sonic pulsations to cleanse deep below the skin's surface.
—Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
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Wolff measured the amplitude of pulsations of blood vessels in the scalp during migraine attacks and after the administration of a drug that constricted the vessels.
—R. Allan Purdy, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
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My face also seemed brighter and more awake, with less fine lines visible immediately after use—presumably thanks to the pulsations.
—Braelyn Wood, Health.com, 12 Dec. 2019
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Ward, barefoot and dressed in white, tends to a sort of altar between lush, trembling eruptions of movement reminiscent of baptismal ritual, the pulsations of her body echoing those of Lanza’s feet.
—Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
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But Frazier had come to believe that, whatever the benefits of pulsation, they were outweighed by the virtues of durability and simplicity.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
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Moaning, spanking, or even positioning your device near music will change the pulsations.
—Laura Delarato, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2023
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Roughly the size of your palm, the Foreo Luna 3 uses soft silicone bristles and 16 different T-sonic pulsations to deeply cleanse pores without irritating your skin.
—Braelyn Wood, Health.com, 2 Dec. 2019
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Dupree believes that the star’s interior convection cells that drive the pulsation are still reverberating from the blast and compared it to the sloshing of an unbalanced washing machine tub.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
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It's got fluidity and an electric charge, with jolts and surges, reversing currents, shifting pulsations and blinding flashes.
—John Adamian, courant.com, 3 May 2017
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The brush’s silicon bristles feel mushy and gentle, even on sensitive skin, and the vibrations of up to 8,000 V-sonic pulsations a minute provided light exfoliation.
—Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
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The Cowgirl has its own app that allows the user to customize vibration, rotation, and pulsation patterns—even with the ability to save your favorite pleasure arrangements.
—Laura Delarato, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2023
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The pulsation delays are very similar to how astronomers find planets via the radial velocity method, but in this case, no spectrometer is needed.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2016
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The data revealed subtle variations in many of the stars’ pulsations that hinted at stellar processes beyond those described by Eddington.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
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One side cleanses the face with silicone bristles using 11 different pulsation modes, and the other (totally flat) side helps to gently massage your serums and moisturizers more deeply into your skin.
—Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 16 Mar. 2023
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According to the car manufacturer, the diaphragm material in the fuel pulsation dampers of certain engines can harden over time and crack, allowing fuel to leak and creating a risk of fire.
—Renae Reints, Fortune, 27 June 2018
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In 2009, the Naval Research Lab suggested that astronomers couldlisten in to find habitable exoplanets by listening for the pulsations of their magnetospheres.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2015
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