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
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
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
She got out of bed and left her room, her palm throbbing.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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Pour forth your homage, chosen of the sun, Once more his warmth encloses; and we feel Responsive throbbings of his fatherhood.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
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
And was her mother not still young and beautiful--still now even, as she lay there with distorted features, with scorching breath, with violent throbbings of her pulses, in fevered dreams?
From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
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
No, not forgotten; else the faithful beating Of heart to genial heart, that beat again, Were turned to throbbings; and each pulse repeating But the sad echoings of pain to pain.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
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