- present participle of throb.
throbbing
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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
On “Anatomical Fable of the Elements,” atop a snaky bassline and a throbbing beat, Ms. Muldrow poses questions: “Is your nose witness to the sweet life?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
The song holds next to none of the grinding desire throbbing through most of The Artist’s oeuvre.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
Ekon’s feet had begun aching hours ago, but he didn’t stop, and now he felt that pain throbbing through his body with every step.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Her eyes were full of tears of joy, and her heart almost bursting with the throbbings of delight, in the anticipation of again pressing her idolized child to her bosom.
From Madame Roland, Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
Go, then, my son, and still the wild throbbings of thy heart over the silent beds of those who wake no more till the resurrection morn.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
As for herself—she was innocent as the linnet that sang beside her in the broom, and innocent was she to be up to the last throbbings of her religious heart.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
So complete the stillness, so dead the very air, the throbbings of her pulses filled the girl with a suffocating sense of her own vitality.
From The Lady of the Mount by Isham, Frederic Stewart
All was still, hushed, silent as the grave, and only the wild throbbings of the young girl's heart could be heard.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly
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