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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

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

From Salon Feb. 14, 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

The art consumes me in a deeper way than it has before, the colors on the poster more real, throbbing with all the emotions in my heart.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

You are not satisfied with these Vague throbbings, nameless ecstasies, Nor can your spirit find delight In an amorphic great white light.

From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire

Go, then, my son, and still the wild throbbings of thy heart over the silent beds of those who wake no more till the resurrection morn.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

Dimly at first, in the painful throbbings of returning consciousness, Blaine knew he was in one of the Llott workshops where machines hummed and pounded and where many operatives were busily engaged.

From The Copper-Clad World by Harl Vincent

And was her mother not still young and beautiful--still now even, as she lay there with distorted features, with scorching breath, with violent throbbings of her pulses, in fevered dreams?

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall

Pour forth your homage, chosen of the sun, Once more his warmth encloses; and we feel Responsive throbbings of his fatherhood.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond




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