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
  • 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
  • Then the door closed and Eliza was alone in the hallway, lightning coursing through her.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • That threw the kennel gates open for the predictable flood of the finest coursing hounds in the British press last night.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Kritsky said the coursing of male cicadas is now peaking around the low to mid-70s.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 16 June 2021
  • The shades were concealing the very real panic coursing through Gosling.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • That sent runoff coursing into streams and rivers and overwhelming levees in some areas, Heitkamp said.
    — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • Hardware sends electrons coursing throughout the world and into our fingertips.
    — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fluid lights undulated on the field surface, mimicking the coursing of blood.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2021
  • 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
  • But this happens by a switch getting thrown, which sends volts of electricity coursing through Suzanne and the volunteer.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • How long the Iron Horse could withstand the barrage coursing through it was anyone’s guess − and one Goss preferred not to dwell on.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Popov has a great feel for the easy warmth coursing between every member of the family, even in moments of strife, and the cast share a fun and comfortable chemistry.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Speaking of erotic, few films have intrepid horniness coursing through their veins like Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake.
    — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 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
  • The Italian stretched out his fellow Tokyo gold medalist’s calf, attempting to ease the pain coursing through the 33-year-old’s leg.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Recent raids have sent terror coursing through Dominican neighborhoods.
    — Adrian Florido, NPR, 2 June 2025
  • The conductor Bertrand de Billy led a coursing, richly detailed and colorful account of the score.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • In the empty piazza, the Pope slowly approached the altar, and his labored movement seemed to symbolize the pain coursing through the wider world.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
  • 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 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 usual Santa Ana storms, most of that flow streams out of the desert, through mountain passes and into the valleys along predictable pathways, like water coursing down riverbeds.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • 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 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

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