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  • present participle of throb.
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throbbing

[throb-ing] / ˈθrɒb ɪŋ /














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That moment came in 2008, with a crash and a long, throbbing hangover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

The song holds next to none of the grinding desire throbbing through most of The Artist’s oeuvre.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026

A couple of years ago, a falling durian landed on his shoulder, leaving him with a throbbing pain that acts up now and then.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 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

I hold my throbbing head and blink stars out my eyes.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The arms were raised, half threateningly, half imploringly, and the lithe, vigorous form swayed in unison with the wild throbbings of a heart in which sated hate did mortal battle with outraged love.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various

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 L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney

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

And its booming notes descended to subsonic throbbings that gripped and wrung the nerves to anguish.

From The Record of Currupira by Robert Abernathy

The beatings of our heart can be heard; but the ceaseless throbbings and throes of thought are unheard, as it changes from material to spiritual standpoints.

From The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy




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