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throbbing

[throb-ing] / ˈθrɒb ɪŋ /














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But still, when I speak to him afterwards, his heavily bandaged leg throbbing, he is determined.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

He is a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” — to 11.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

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

Then, in no time at all, the sky above us was filled with a thunderous throbbing roar, so loud that I thought my ears might burst.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Yet, when the tyrant strives with outrage rude The unyielding maid in darkness to enclose, Then, only then, her burning heart outflows In anguished cries of love, but unsubdued By baser throbbings.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

The strength that had sustained me through my narrative was fleeting fast, and my heart had resumed its painful throbbings, as he stood before me and took my hand.

From Friends I Have Made by George Manville Fenn

And as if the exuberance of the wish had started her old ailment into new vigor, she has clasped her hands wildly over that bosom, to stay, if it might be, those inordinate throbbings.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

I hoped that the gloved hand resting so near to it did not feel its throbbings, although they sounded in my ears like a hammer on an anvil.

From The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey

And its booming notes descended to subsonic throbbings that gripped and wrung the nerves to anguish.

From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy




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