- present participle of throb.
throbbing
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Set to a throbbing synth bassline, the song teases fans by interpolating a line from her 1980s classic Into The Groove: "Out here on the dance floor, I feel so free."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
He is a throbbing mass of malevolence, turned up — to reference Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap” — to 11.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
My face is throbbing and there’s a sharp sting on the side of my nose.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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She had found peace in days gone by as she looked calmly out over the waste of waters whither she was floating, and felt no hard throbbings of the heart where love was dying!
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood
Dimly at first, in the painful throbbings of returning consciousness, Blaine knew he was in one of the Llott workshops where machines hummed and pounded and where many operatives were busily engaged.
From The Copper-Clad World by Harl Vincent
Lie still, my heart, lest these convulsive throbbings Mar my last wish.
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant
And her heart leaps suddenly; its tumultuous throbbings nearly suffocate her.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
I might snatch it perhaps but for these mad throbbings, this veil over my eyes, the dryness of my lips.
From Woman by Magdeleine Marx
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