throbbing
Example Sentences
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So what to do about your underwhelming past lovers, your Pisces Venusian yearning, your throbbing heart, your efforts to prepare yourself to love from the most whole place you possibly can?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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
Following the Maytals’ 1968 hit “Do the Reggay,” with its choppy beat, steady rhythm guitar, throbbing bass and wailing horns, Mr. Cliff wrote songs that expressed social and personal themes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
But it’s D’Angelo’s soaring vocals that transmute the molten instrumental throbbing into a transcendent buzz, achieved through multi-track vocal layers and a vacillation between climactic reverb roars and serene breaks.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2025
I try not to look past him at Courtney and Jupiter, who are currently slow-dancing...despite the upbeat Drake song currently throbbing through the speakers.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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