How to Use throb in a Sentence

throb

verb
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  • Her finger throbbed with pain.
  • The music throbs with a Caribbean beat.
  • The slits in his arms well And throb like storm creeks.
    — David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Their cheers blend in with the music that throbs as the clock ticks down on the chefs.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Their cheers blend in with the music that throbs as the clock ticks down on the chefs.
    — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The long rod arched and throbbed as a steelhead thrashed to the surface.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The kind of tired where your face vibrates and your eyes throb.
    — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2018
  • His wrists throbbed in time with his heart and kept him awake at night.
    — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The right side of my face is throbbing — except for my mouth, which is numb.
    — Lisa Haney, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The young heart throb plays new recruit Matt Brody, a disgraced Olympian.
    — Marcy Medina | Wwd, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
  • The pain surfaced in 2011, when Olsen awoke in the middle of the night in France, drenched in sweat, his stomach throbbing.
    — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The first sign of a cold sore is usually a throbbing pain in your lip for about one or two days.
    — Dr. Leslie Baumann, miamiherald, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Here's the thing: All piercings will probably sting, maybe bleed, and then throb for a few hours.
    — Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 3 July 2019
  • Perhaps the bass guitar throbs from your right side, the synth from the left, and the kick drum is an additive force on both sides.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The screen turns scarlet and sinuous, and begins to throb.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Adrenaline throbbing through my veins made the steep slope an easy climb.
    — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
  • The Hébuterne portraits throb with the passion this couple clearly shared.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Her skin bled from being rubbed by the constraints, the latex made her face swell, and her back throbbed from being stooped.
    — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • On stage, in public view, the show is a sea of noise and head-banging and throbbing male energy.
    — Peter Hamby, The Hive, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Soon thick black smoke is billowing into the air and the street throbs with the buzzing of electricity.
    — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Manning's testicles throbbed as if every day he'd been kicked in the groin anew.
    — Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Then both of my shoulder blades started hurting, and then my chest and throat were throbbing.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
  • In the years after his career ended, his hands, knees and back throbbed from 13 years of pounding and too many surgeries.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Monterey Road, the main street, throbs with taquerias and carnicerias.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The climactic scene and the emotive needle drop would make even the blackest of hearts throb with a little emotion.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
  • Not just in in the spare, throbbing beat, which hums along in the verses before erupting during a trunk-rattling hook.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 6 June 2018
  • The rendang throbs with lemongrass, cinnamon and lime leaf.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Anna Zhavnerovich woke with a start, her purple eye sockets and swollen lips throbbing.
    — Yulia James and Sophia Jones, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2017
  • And, when the Saint Martin métro station opened in 1913, Paris throbbed with artistic invention.
    — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019

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