How to Use arrhythmic in a Sentence

arrhythmic

adjective
  • But at the arrhythmic heart of the matter were these two stories.
    — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • During the initial incline, one person had an arrhythmic episode that resolved on its own.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Commotio cordis is one example, which is the sudden arrhythmic death caused by a low/mild chest wall impact.
    — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • On offense, the Americans’ movement has had a clunky, arrhythmic feel.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2016
  • Contrary to the Facebook post's claim, sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is nothing new.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
  • Not all children are embarrassed by their parents’ arrhythmic flossing.
    — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • Others are more avant-garde and incorporate acrobatic moves, or an arrhythmic dance known as flossing.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2018
  • The bass in any of Metro Boomin’s beats has a sort of sinisterly arrhythmic pulse that leaks out of speakers and drives through walls even at its lowest volume.
    — Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Others are the product of arrhythmic drives that grind to a halt as Fournier seals his man behind him before exploding through some unexpected space.
    — Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • It can also be treated by anti-arrhythmic drugs including amiodarone, and some patients may take anticoagulant drugs like warfarin to reduce the risk of stroke.
    — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • Reijn’s wishy-washy, arrhythmic, humorless direction homes in far too much on redundant, nothingburger details and does way too little with what the actors are trying to give.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The authors concluded the volunteers had benign cardiac responses, but people with underlying heart conditions were at risk for arrhythmic episodes.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Sudden death was the first manifestation of cardiac disease for more than half the arrhythmic cases, the study found, meaning the individuals had no prior warning sign to their condition.
    — Kimberly Veklerov, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2018
  • Sun Ra’s intro wandered, appealingly arrhythmic.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The team suspected that a gene called RYR2 could be the culprit -- mutations of the gene can cause a cardiac arrhythmic disorder that can lead to exercise-fainting spells, seizures or even sudden cardiac death.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Brody interacts poorly with the other lifeguards (the dialogue between Efron and the other players is deliberately arrhythmic at first), resisting their efforts to integrate him into the group.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2017
  • For example, a family of anti-arrhythmic drugs that was effective in stopping asymptomatic irregular heartbeats was subsequently found to increase the risk of cardiac arrest when given to heart attack survivors.
    — G. Caleb Alexander, STAT, 10 Apr. 2020
  • And of those that were correctly classified, nearly half were not arrhythmic — involving an irregular heartbeat — meaning that defibrillators or CPR would not have saved the person, the study found.
    — Kimberly Veklerov, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2018
  • Kirk Baxter’s arrhythmic cutting is designed around quicksilver shifts that, along with Barry Ackroyd’s restlessly attentive, mostly handheld camerawork, allow Bigelow to redirect our attention with virtuoso command.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025

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