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throbbing

[throb-ing] / ˈθrɒb ɪŋ /














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That moment came in 2008, with a crash and a long, throbbing hangover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

It was like a dull, throbbing ache, or a sharp, twisty, stabbing feeling—oh, why were things becoming indescribable all of a sudden?

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

It was her head that was full of throbbings and pulses, not her heart.

From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

There something of the energy that creates that endless panorama is comprehended; all the deep throbbings of the mighty river's pulses are felt; all the magnificence is seen.

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

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

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

From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy

Voices of expectation rolling on To diapason of a mighty choir, 'Mid ever-swooning throbbings beating low, Wove in hoarse fabric thunders—and O soul!

From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Madison Julius Cawein




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