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
Your eyes might begin to water, your head to throb and headlines in today’s newspapers to overwhelm your thoughts.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
His shoulder had begun to throb and smart from the goldsmith’s touch, like a sleeping devil roused to angry wakefulness, but the greatest pain was in his mind.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
