To forget everything in the sound of the pounding sea was to hear the world's heartbeat.

The silence of that huge space was so deep you could hear your heartbeat.

We could hear its little heartbeat and see the shape of a small body.

To his surprise, he could hear her heartbeat far more clearly than usual.

Your doctor may hear the baby's heartbeat with special instruments.

No celebrating, she said, until we hear the baby's heartbeat.

I could hear his heartbeat, feel it against my cheek.

There was silence on the bank, the kind so deep you could hear your own heartbeat.

He was much too close and she could hear his heartbeat.

But inside the house, it was so silent she could hear her own heartbeat.