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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

On “Anatomical Fable of the Elements,” atop a snaky bassline and a throbbing beat, Ms. Muldrow poses questions: “Is your nose witness to the sweet life?”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 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

I drank three-quarters of a bottle of water on the way up and used much of the rest to wet a bandanna and try to cool my throbbing head.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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 Glenwood, Ida

Her lips were pinched and blue; that strange double look in her eyes,—one fastened upon Adèle, and the other upon vacancy; her hands clasped over her heart as if to stay its mad throbbings.

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

None knew better than he did, how to still the throbbings of the wrung heart, and administer consolation.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

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 Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

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

From The Record of Currupira by Abernathy, Robert




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