- present participle of throb.
throbbing
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But still, when I speak to him afterwards, his heavily bandaged leg throbbing, he is determined.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The song holds next to none of the grinding desire throbbing through most of The Artist’s oeuvre.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
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
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
Sometimes throbbing headaches stopped her from reading and writing.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
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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
I hoped that the gloved hand resting so near to it did not feel its throbbings, although they sounded in my ears like a hammer on an anvil.
From The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey
The sound, reaching the ears of the trappers, carried their eyes out toward the plain; where they beheld a sight that caused one and all of them wild throbbings of the heart.
From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid
None knew better than he did, how to still the throbbings of the wrung heart, and administer consolation.
From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various
You are not satisfied with these Vague throbbings, nameless ecstasies, Nor can your spirit find delight In an amorphic great white light.
From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire
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