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throbbing

[throb-ing] / ˈθrɒb ɪŋ /














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The song holds next to none of the grinding desire throbbing through most of The Artist’s oeuvre.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026

So what to do about your underwhelming past lovers, your Pisces Venusian yearning, your throbbing heart, your efforts to prepare yourself to love from the most whole place you possibly can?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

She told me I may see her third eye throbbing there when she entered her trance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

On the second track, “Bumpy,” what sounds like a sonic rendering of an exploding box of crayons leads to a throbbing pulse that could be a sentient computer’s ticking heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

My heart is beating so hard I hear it throbbing in my ears.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

The sound, reaching the ears of the trappers, carried their eyes out toward the plain; where they beheld a sight that caused one and all of them wild throbbings of the heart.

From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid

The beatings of our heart can be heard; but the ceaseless throbbings and throes of thought are unheard, as it changes from material to spiritual standpoints.

From The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy

All was still, hushed, silent as the grave, and only the wild throbbings of the young girl's heart could be heard.

From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph

It came over the fondest throbbings of my soul like the echo of a funeral bell, for ever pealing its sepulchral boom through the music of bridal joy.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

She had found peace in days gone by as she looked calmly out over the waste of waters whither she was floating, and felt no hard throbbings of the heart where love was dying!

From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood




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