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Tammy Wynette had it; just listen to her mourn how “the sun will never shine in Apartment #9” and your ear will catch the throb in her throat that echoes the song’s steel guitar.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

The braggadocious “Helicopter” has a piercing throb like a car alarm, while “Stole Ya Flow”—a diss track apparently addressed to Drake—has a curling and distorted drone winding through it, a rattlesnake-like warning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

And so the throb of pain continues to course through her.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

A new scene opens on a translucent blob with twisty veins that seems to throb, which is revealed to be a portion of a voluminous, sheer sleeve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Though we have been living at Krang Truop for two months and my blistered feet have healed, the thought of more walking makes my ankles throb with pain.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The production, co-created and directed by Moisés Kaufman, throbs with lip-synchable pop hits of such eclectic range that the dance club energy eventually ensnares everybody.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

Lenz’s voice is multiplied and scattered in overlapping harmonies while the track throbs and blips; the collaborators seem to be working on independent time frames, intersecting just often enough.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Such waves can be detected in the way the star’s light pulses and throbs.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023

My heart throbs in my jaw: so close.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2023

My heads throbs with every beat of my heart.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

The songs – Thunder Road, Jungleland, Born To Run – throbbed with longing, as his characters fought to escape the confines of small-town, blue collar American life.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

Guitars wailed and drums throbbed behind her as part of a set with her bandmates during a recent show.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

As we said our farewells, my head throbbed from taking in so much knowledge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

Later, Celtics forward Jayson Tatum splayed across the floor as his right shoulder throbbed in pain.

From Washington Post ● May 22, 2022

She tried to sit up, but her leg throbbed in pain.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

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

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

She told me I may see her third eye throbbing there when she entered her trance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

If my eye weren’t throbbing and puffing up and I weren’t so full of dread, the moment would be kind of funny.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell