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Example sentences for "throbbing"

Lexicographically close words:
throated; throats; throaty; throb; throbbed; throbbings; throbs; throe; throes; throgh
  1. So each day they started, throbbing hope and fierce determination to win her in the heart of him who ran--fading hope and despairing anger as he saw her skimming ahead of him like a gay-hued butterfly that a tired child pursues in vain.

  2. Under a little clump of pines were some rough steps hewn in a boulder of marble leading yet higher up the hill, and these Roland would have climbed, but his throbbing heart could no more, and again he fell swooning on the ground.

  3. The book is throbbing like his fiery heart; This I have learned with memorising it: And now it is my only orison, My only literature, my only joy.

  4. The throbbing pulse of night, panting its joy.

  5. I hover near the poet's ear, And haunt him till he sings: The minstrel's hand my unseen wand Guides o'er the throbbing strings.

  6. Shortly after this explosion in the factory the Boss happened into the Sales Manager’s throbbing little office, and in the course of a high-spirited but not dangerous discussion on things in general he discovered that the S.

  7. The child passed her soft, white hands over the forehead of Miss Vernon, and the throbbing pain passed away under her magic touch.

  8. As we continued northward the throbbing of distant gunfire became plainer, and a strange flickering could be seen in the morning sky.

  9. A tugboat, looking ridiculously small against the gigantic liner ahead, now took us in tow, and the throbbing of the ship's screw stopped.

  10. Without another word Trent followed the Lisu, the blood still throbbing hotly in his throat.

  11. Trent showed little interest as they waited--but the pulse in his throat was throbbing hotly.

  12. To him the throbbing of the motor car suddenly became the pulse of the night, of the hot street where, on either side, dark faces peered curiously at them.

  13. Trent, leaning on the port rail, pipe between his teeth, heard the throbbing violins cease.

  14. Muhafiz Ali came from the North, from Peshawar, and the sultry, throbbing heat of Central India dried up the life in his veins.

  15. From a nautch-house close by came the muffled throbbing of tom-toms--a restless pulse of the night.

  16. Above all rose the voice of a violin, quivering its infinite travail, expressing the throbbing pain of the world; then, from far up the valley, a lonely tenor floated down the night.

  17. His own throbbing heart told him so as he sat and talked with her.

  18. The throbbing of my own blood in my ears.

  19. It was the same swelling, throbbing excitement he had felt when, waiting in his room on the afternoon of his Election Day, he realized by the shouting of the crowd below that his election was coming.

  20. The second floor was throbbing with the rich life of a poolhall, and as they passed the Christian Science rooms on the third floor they carried with them the strains of a therapeutic hymn.

  21. His head was throbbing violently and his throat was hot.

  22. The heat of summer and the chill of winter pass and repass; the long grasses grow and die; the sun and the moon and the throbbing stars spread light upon these sepulchers.

  23. Victor, kept awake by his throbbing hands, which he tried to ease by gently rocking his body, listened dully to all these now familiar sounds.

  24. My head was racking and throbbing like a hammer.

  25. I relapsed on to my bed without a murmur only to receive a resounding clout which set my head throbbing once more with accentuated intensity.

  26. As Anthony went down the square winding staircase, an hour later when the evening was over, and the keen winter air poured up to meet him, his brain was throbbing with the madness of dance and music and whirling colour.

  27. What a contrast, this sweet night air streaming past him, this dear world of living things, his throbbing horse beneath him, the birds and beasts round him, and this gallant girl swaying and rejoicing too beside him!

  28. His mind was throbbing with memories and associations.

  29. Then a stair creaked under his weight; and he stopped in an agony, hearing only the mad throbbing in his own ears.

  30. Matshaka sat on a stone on the highest south-eastern spur of the Intsiza Mountain, just overlooking the Rode Wesleyan Mission Station, one Sunday morning in the month of November 1880, and listened to the faint throbbing of the church bell.

  31. The sun again sank, and night descended from an untarnished sky of throbbing stars, and the poor little child was still lost in the maze of bare, frowning peak and yawning chasm.

  32. At certain hours the sound of bells is heard and the low rhythm of the organ throbbing through the aisles.

  33. If from the latter, there will be throbbing headache, pain in the back, and general signs of fever.

  34. When the signs of this creative power come throbbing and pulsing in every fiber, it only shows that one has more and greater ability to create than ever before.

  35. I leave him in all his difficulties, with his head throbbing with overwrought thoughts, and his frame sometimes sinking under his anxieties.

  36. Alan, gazing at the old man, felt exultation leaping and throbbing within him.

  37. She was throbbing with determination and action, as she found her purse and counted the money in it.

  38. Alan bent forward, his heart throbbing in his throat.

  39. The water splashed into the basin, the music came throbbing in through the flower-hung doorways.

  40. Penelope was standing now, her slim, elegant form throbbing with the earnestness of her words, a spot of angry color burning in her cheeks.

  41. They passed into the great ballroom, the finest in London, brilliant with its magnificent decorations of real flowers, its crowd of uniformed men and beautiful women, its soft yet ever-present throbbing of wonderful music.

  42. The slight superficial wound did its best to contradict me by throbbing vilely.

  43. In the process of time I forgot sufficiently the dull tumult of my brain and the throbbing of my arm for my jaded nerves to be lulled into an uneasy doze.

  44. The idea set Dennis throbbing with a new hope, a new aim.

  45. His head ached with thinking before he fell asleep, and when he woke, before dawn, it was with throbbing temples and anxious heart.

  46. When he had finished reading, you could almost hear the hearts throbbing in the room.

  47. In another instant we were wildly speeding uptown, the bell on the front of the automobile clanging like a fire-engine, the siren horn going continuously, the engine of the machine throbbing with energy until the water boiled in the radiator.

  48. The throbbing of strange energies filled the air of the room, and Carr's brain pulsed with the maddening rhythm.

  49. It was transparent, parchment-like, and even in the light of the room that glowed from some hidden source, he could see the throbbing lines of blood-vessels that showed livid through the translucent skin.

  50. It came under the guise of a dull, yet penetrating throbbing coming from beneath the surface on which he lay.

  51. And during that time, the throbbing gradually increased until the metal began vibrating under his feet.

  52. With the passing of the weariness, Parkinson became aware of a sharp throbbing in his arm.

  53. A dozen vacuum tubes lighted, and a murmur of throbbing energy came from a helix of shining metallic ribbon that topped the whole.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "throbbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.