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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

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

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

In the distance ahead of them, Annabeth began to hear a throbbing sound, like her own heartbeat echoing back, amplified so powerfully, the floor vibrated underfoot.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

No wonder, then, that she clung to her perverseness, and moved about on her restless pillow with no sweet or refreshing sleep to quiet the throbbings of her heavy brow.

From The Elm Tree Tales by F. Irene Burge (Frances Irene Burge) Smith

No, not forgotten; else the faithful beating Of heart to genial heart, that beat again, Were turned to throbbings; and each pulse repeating But the sad echoings of pain to pain.

From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

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

Now it hurries again, as if these were its last throbbings, which it would fain beat out rapidly.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

So complete the stillness, so dead the very air, the throbbings of her pulses filled the girl with a suffocating sense of her own vitality.

From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham




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