throb
Example Sentences
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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
As she hurried them along, the scar from the old wound on her temple began to throb like a toothache.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Vocabulary lists containing throb
That Hurts! Synonyms for "Pain"
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"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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