How to use heartbeat in a sentence

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• You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.From the entry feel
• Be careful of him, he'll game on you in a heartbeat.From the entry game on
• My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.From the entry quicken
• The fetus can hear the bump of the mother's heartbeat.From the entry bump
• The most common type of irregular heartbeat is atrial fibrillation or AFib.2024 February 13, “Understanding Your Heart Rate”, in Emory Healthcare. From the entry fibrillation
• “He’s the kind of person who would pick up the bill in a heartbeat,” she says.2023 July 22, Barbara Speed, “‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on…. From the entry in a heartbeat
• Love letters, long walks in the park, listening to each other’s heartbeats?2021, Chloe O. Davis, “Allosexual”, in The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases, Clarkson Potter…. From the entry alloromantic
• His heartbeat increased in intensity, his hormones went through the roof, and his mind became woozy.2014, Kwame Owusu-Baafi, Through the Eyes of the Spirit, page 136. From the entry through the roof
• On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.2013 September 7, “Kill or cure”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852. From the entry launch
• No heartbeat thoomed unmirrored in the chest of the youngest baby pelican or the oldest arctic turtle.2013, Josh Wagner, Deadwind Sea. From the entry thoom
• Even as I said that, my heartbeat raced faster, my stomach parkoured around my middle.2012, Richard Labonté, Best Gay Romance, page 5. From the entry parkoured
• As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat.2011, D. P. Lyle, chapter 78, in Hot Lights, Cold Steel, →ISBN, page 340. From the entry sideways
• But they'll screw you in a heartbeat when nobody else is around.2007, David Axe, Army 101: Inside ROTC in a Time of War, Univ of South Carolina Press, page 31. From the entry blue falcon
• One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3. From the entry telebooth
• He accelerates in a heartbeat with a lightning quick stride and changes direction smoothly.2001 May 22, Kyle Woodlief, “Sharp-shooting Swede Sjostrom shines”, in USA Today, retrieved 24 Jun 2011. From the entry in a heartbeat
• Gaskell, using frogs' hearts, proved that the heartbeat was, as Haller had suggested, of myogenic origin.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 558. From the entry myogenic
• My heartbeat sped up and I turned to Seamus, who was biting his lip, trying not to laugh.2025 May 10, Kim Nash, chapter 31, in The Cornish Cottage by the Sea (Sandpiper Shores; 1), London: Boldwood Books, →ISBN. From the entry huffer
• The whole exchange happened in a heartbeat.2021, Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth, Levine Querido, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry tradesies
• As far as Rostam could tell, the only thing needed to enlist in the Legion was a heartbeat.2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning. From the entry byspel
• Arrest of anapnea or heartbeat happened in 2 cases.2005 February, Xu Hong-zhen, Bai Lin, “Aspiration of gastric contents in pediatric anaesthesia: analysis of 49 cases”, in Chongqing…. From the entry anapnea
• In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.1998, George Mckinney, Cross the Line. From the entry flatliner
• There was no heartbeat on the monitor.1997, Joanni Nelson Horchler, Robin Rice Morris, The SIDS Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family and Friends and…. From the entry call
• Controlled by computer, the plastic-skinned dummy has a heartbeat, breathes, tries to cough the air tube up out of its windpipe and even vomits.1967, LIFE, volume 63, number 23, page 87. From the entry deathproof
• The authorities said that the spinach had caused “possible food-related toxic reactions” with those affected experiencing symptoms including delirium, hallucinations, blurred vision, rapid heartbeat and fever.2022 December 18, Yan Zhuang, “How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on…. From the entry hallucination
• Some prey, a mouse probably, crept to the edge of the pavement below, sniffing, twitching, its heartbeat flashing in Trustyfriend's preterhuman hearing like a buoy light.2021, Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, page 254. From the entry preterhuman
• Ollie, my sister from another mister, would have shared her tiny bedroom with me in a heartbeat if I'd asked, but I'd never stoop to asking.2017, Liz Reinhardt, chapter 1, in Rebels Like Us, Don Mills, Ont.: Seventeen Fiction, Harlequin Teen, →ISBN. From the entry sister from another mister
• Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a general term indicating a rapid heartbeat (tachycardia) coming from the top chambers of the heart - in essence, above (supra) the lower chamber (ventricular).2009, Douglas P. Zipes, Saturday Evening Post, volume 281, number 1, page 20. From the entry general
• Here standard acoustic instruments are played in ways that suggest electronic sound: violins whir and buzz, woodwinds produce a toneless breathiness and a gentle tapping evokes a heartbeat.2008 May 9, Allan Kozinn, “From Energetic Players, a Mix of Modernism”, in New York Times. From the entry breathiness
• A double systole catapulted him into full consciousness again, and he promised his uncorrected self that he would limit his daily ration of cigarettes to a couple of heartbeats.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 78–9. From the entry systole
• We crossed a stream you couldn’t see from the road, feet drumming the floorboards of the wooden bridge to send a heartbeat through the mute village of stonebound, narrow lanes.2005, John Reibetanz, “What Just Was”, in Near Relations, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., →ISBN, pages 15–16. From the entry stonebound

Meaning of heartbeat

1. noun One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
2. noun The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
3. noun A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.

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Questions about heartbeat in a sentence

How do you use heartbeat in a sentence?

Heartbeat is used as a noun. For example: “The policeman waited for a heartbeat in vain.”

What is a short sentence with heartbeat?

“He alone gives me such heartbeats.”

What does heartbeat mean?

Heartbeat means one pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.