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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

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

When the aircraft parked and the doors opened, Harris said his head was throbbing, he felt confused and was struggling to string sentences together.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

They can last from a couple of minutes to days and the pain can be sharp, dull, throbbing or stabbing and sometimes spread beyond your head to your scalp, face or even your neck.

From BBC Nov. 5, 2025

But it did not stop the angry throbbing in his brain, the thing burning inside him.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Her eyes were full of tears of joy, and her heart almost bursting with the throbbings of delight, in the anticipation of again pressing her idolized child to her bosom.

From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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

From The Record of Currupira by Abernathy, Robert

Then, truant, then the whisp'ring breeze Thy thoughts might interchange with mine; And, faithful carrier, swiftly bear The throbbings of this heart to thine!

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)

Then where could Marjory go, in the midst of this confusion of gaiety?—where, as the poet says, "weep her woes" in secret, and listen to the throbbings of a broken heart?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander

As for herself—she was innocent as the linnet that sang beside her in the broom, and innocent was she to be up to the last throbbings of her religious heart.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde




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