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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

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

The plastic symmetry of “Battleship Potemkin,” its humanity, and its throbbing power still command respect, and Sergei Eisenstein endures as the finest film editor the world has seen.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

Then anew sound began, a distant booming and throbbing.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Then, truant, then the whisp'ring breeze Thy thoughts might interchange with mine; And, faithful carrier, swiftly bear The throbbings of this heart to thine!

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde

There something of the energy that creates that endless panorama is comprehended; all the deep throbbings of the mighty river's pulses are felt; all the magnificence is seen.

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

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 John Lyde Wilson

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 Frederic Stewart Isham

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 John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott




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