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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
In the often exquisite score, the strings throb and the woodwinds flutter.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
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
You could hear the distant throb of the ship’s engines.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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
A radio throbs with Bob Marley in a park where German officer once resided in the surrounding townhouses.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
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
The single lightbulb overhead throbs, hurts his eyes, burns into his skull.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
On a recent Thursday night, the high-ceilinged room throbbed with what felt like pre-Covid energy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Over the next few days my hand and wrist throbbed to the point of distraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
His cheek throbbed, but he wouldn’t give Luxa the satisfaction of seeing him touch it.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
That moment came in 2008, with a crash and a long, throbbing hangover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
But still, when I speak to him afterwards, his heavily bandaged leg throbbing, he is determined.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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
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
Bending over to hold his throbbing sides, he listened carefully.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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