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
Set to a throbbing synth bassline, the song teases fans by interpolating a line from her 1980s classic Into The Groove: "Out here on the dance floor, I feel so free."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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
And then I burrow into the blankets, situating the ice against my throbbing knee, a tight breath hissing between my teeth.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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All was still, hushed, silent as the grave, and only the wild throbbings of the young girl's heart could be heard.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
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
He would not listen to the whispered monitions of reason, so utterly at variance with the passionate throbbings of his heart.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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
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
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