How To Use Throbbing In A Sentence

‘I want to come back when it's a bit quieter,’ I shouted over the din of amplified music, throbbing diesel generators and rattling joy rides.
There were dozens of glow-in-the-dark stars throbbing there, throwing their unnatural green light down to her.
The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
THE next time you suffer toothache or throbbing back pain, blame it on evolution. The Sun
He was also aware of a throbbing under his right rib.

Popular Italian tenor sings opera arias and throbbing ballads. Times, Sunday Times
His head was throbbing and he was faint from hunger.
After a few minutes, there is indeed a warm glow to accompany the throbbing pain. Times, Sunday Times
She awoke slowly, her head throbbing as it had the time she had taken a whole tankard of ale on a dare from the boys.
He was not thinking of the girl beside him; only something seemed to swell and grow and swell within his heart; it was all the torture of his days, weary hopes and weary disappointment, scorn rankling and throbbing, and the thought "I had rather call the devils my brothers and live with them in hell. The Hill of Dreams
One day my head was throbbing so badly, I could barely see. Times, Sunday Times
His mind was throbbing with expectation.
Now you've got a throbbing bruise underneath your nail. The Sun
From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again. Times, Sunday Times
I opened my eyes, my head throbbing. Anti-Ice
She lives with regular dizziness and a constant throbbing pain in her chest and legs because of the pressure on her circulatory system.
His head was throbbing but he was still hoping to play a further part in a match that is finely balanced. Times, Sunday Times
Both records have a good throbbing bass which is great to dance to.
THE next time you suffer toothache or throbbing back pain, blame it on evolution. The Sun
A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music.
Everything screams Euro, from the glossy wine-red walls dressed with oversized posters to the throbbing house to the floor-to-ceiling stall doors and mod capsule hand dryer in the WC.
On his forehead resides a swollen, bluish bruise that is most likely throbbing painfully.
It is a depopulated metropolis, with cheap rents and disused factories making for ample gallery space and throbbing, packed-to-thegills clubs. Times, Sunday Times
His head was throbbing but he was still hoping to play a further part in a match that is finely balanced. Times, Sunday Times
From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again. Times, Sunday Times
Now you've got a throbbing bruise underneath your nail. The Sun
Tere's response is slightly different: "Just watching him on the screen makes my little sopaipilla start throbbing …. Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez
The wizard uncurled his stinging fist and the roll of gold coins slipped between his throbbing fingers.
Thoughts of the dwarfish little thief brought a fresh ache to a throat sore and throbbing. Earl of Durkness
The pulsating vein that was throbbing on my temple may have betrayed my initial intention though.
If the giant was clever, he would have worn a helmet, thus deflecting the potentially lethal blow, and then proceeded to beat David into a throbbing bloody pulp.
His words landed like a bomb. After the explosion there was just a deathly quiet, the engine throbbing softly.
These initial symptoms are typically followed by an intense throbbing head pain, nausea and vomiting. Times, Sunday Times
After a few minutes, there is indeed a warm glow to accompany the throbbing pain. Times, Sunday Times
Doom metal is usually an analogue affair, full of throbbing tube amps and strings detuned so low they're practically flapping.
Just as the throbbing in my ankle was beginning to cause me grief, the disappointment of defeat was sinking in. The Sun
If there are occasionally a few transitional paragraphs between the coupling of her tight, wet, hot... self, and his hard, needy, throbbing...self and the second, even more quiverful coupling of said genitals, I find that my sisters are simply flipping pages straight to the good stuff, as it were. A General Indictment of the Romance "Genre"
His voice was throbbing with emotion.
He lay awake, his nerves throbbing.
His foot was throbbing madly, but he gave the door another kick, muttering more curses under his breath.
With my tongue throbbing from the hot pepper I'd bitten into, the main course of tofu and vegetables on okra polenta, was divinely soothing.
The wizard uncurled his stinging fist and the roll of gold coins slipped between his throbbing fingers.
It lay there, inert under his jacket sleeve, throbbing gently like a time bomb. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
Her hand was throbbing painfully, but it was nothing compared to the ache in her heart.
And his eyes were hurting, throbbing, burning when he looked at her.
The wound then must necessarily become discolored and its lips everted, the discharge will be ichorous and without pus, and the bones, which should not have got into a state of necrosis, exfoliate; and the wound gets into a throbbing and inflamed condition. On Fractures
She looked aside at the sea, and up at the banks, and down at the little dubbs of salt water as she skipped across them, crying out at sight of the sea-holly, the anemone, and the sea-mouse shining like fire, but still holding to Philip's arm and bounding and throbbing on it. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
One day my head was throbbing so badly, I could barely see. Times, Sunday Times
the throbbing of the engines
The throbbing chords of Blink-182's songs had driven the eerie faerie melodies right out of her head. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
My head vein is throbbing out of control. The Sun
Your heart is throbbing against hers! Three Men in a Boat
Almost all current writing about Africa depends on a blend of Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh: the brooding, throbbing stagnation of the Congo and the sinister farce of egomaniacal "Afrocentric" politics. African Gothic
The music's throbbing pulse was giving me a headache.
The engine is throbbing quietly.
It was about eleven o'clock, and he'd just come back from a lie-down on his settee, where he could have the TV on to cut down the throbbing. PROSPECT HILL
Next, the level of serotonin plummets causing the blood vessels to dilate and creating blinding, throbbing headaches.
He strode forward haughtily, taking his steps slowly with head thrown back, and as Frank gazed at him with heart throbbing painfully and heavily under the stress of his emotion, he could not help thinking how noble and fierce a warrior the Baggara looked, with his simple white robe, and how dangerous an enemy with the curved dagger in his girdle, and long, keen, crusader-like sword hanging from a kind of baldric from his right shoulder. In the Mahdi's Grasp
She held her hand against the throbbing bump that now protruded from her forehead.
I had a throbbing abscess under a large section of bridgework and root canal work was the next day's projected treat.
Her guitar is now amped up and she fronts a sizzling band with a pair of electric guitars, a throbbing amplified bass, drums and a girl singer.
In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon.
But the persona, writerly and otherwise, that I've invested so much time grooming over the past few decades just doesn't marry up with sleekness and throbbing muscly health.
He picked up the pace into a ragged shamble, his knee throbbing with pain. CORMORANT
There are countless others including some recently written that would take very little to get the blood pounding and the heart throbbing.
For them there was nothing left — no more tremblings and flutterings and delicious anguishes, no more throbbing and pulsing, and sighing and song. WHEN GOD LAUGHS
The darker egg, however, was pulsing and throbbing, showing signs of life.
That was a throbbing sensation and it made my limbs feel cool or numb. Times, Sunday Times
These initial symptoms are typically followed by an intense throbbing head pain, nausea and vomiting. Times, Sunday Times
`We'll have to fly this eggbeater together,'" Giordino told Loren as the pain in his legs subsided from sheer agony to a throbbing ache. INCA GOLD
It can be sharp and cutting or dull and throbbing. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
she asked as she sat up, her ankle throbbing dully as she did.
The Warm and Fuzzys are well known for their fun factor and throbbing sound systems.
Eventually the ship's throbbing cut out, and they could see the dim shapes of launches being lowered over the sides.
The cityscape was a granite-and-glass mountain range, all glistening peaks and shadowy valleys of ceaseless life, a throbbing, pulsating, never-resting free-for-all of people and ideas and stories just screaming to be told. Sins of Two Fathers
The bass player, whom you see pictured here, has the most whomping, throbbing, amped-up bass sound you're going to hear this side of Lightning Bolt.
His shaft was throbbing under her fingers… he seemed in torment, his expression agonized as she worked his engorged flesh. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
Two months ago I would have been lying in the beanbag on a Sunday, not noticing anything except the throbbing in my skull.
From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
It often takes a sensation to create a thrill or terror, to take us beyond simple awareness to a throbbingly self-conscious recognition of the new.
His head was killing him, throbbing, pulsing, and giving him a sort of headache he'd never before experienced.
Both records have a good throbbing bass which is great to dance to.
I woke up alone on his sofa and wandered home with a throbbing head. The Sun
Her heart was throbbing with excitement.
I winched as I felt my leg throbbing again.
The main avenue made sense to him only as fragments of a discordant puzzle: mirrored glass and throbbing loudspeakers, a modishness that seemed pirated, misplaced; here, a flashy music store; there, the facade of a hamburger shop litigiously similar to an American franchise. Heaven Lake
This sensuous pas de trois, her brother and the procurer manipulating her compliant limbs, gives us a throbbing chill. Times, Sunday Times
My mood on Friday wasn't helped by the fact that I was limping around with a painfully throbbing bruised ankle.
Squirrels, too, whose spicy ardor no heat or cold may abate, were nutting among the pines, and the innumerable hosts of the insect kingdom were throbbing and wavering unwearied as sunbeams. John Muir
My left leg was bent and throbbing in pain and my forehead was burning.
Around the temple are other structures in ruins and clearly this was once a township throbbing with pilgrims and the chant of mantras.
If Lady Luck were a bit kinder to them they would have been out of sight as we entered those heart throbbing dying minutes.
Because there are many reasons why your head might be throbbing. The Sun
The sound ricocheted around the hall, bouncing from the marble walls, piercing his throbbing head.
Your heart is throbbing against hers! Three Men in a Boat
Because there are many reasons why your head might be throbbing. The Sun
Their gibbering hybrid of beer-hall chants, dramatic pseudo-emoting, spooky synths, throbbing rhythms, and tortured, swirling arrangements remained multiform and strange, but were internally consistent.
Any indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils. CHAPTER XXI
Vegas airport is a throbbing, pulsating riot of noise and colour.
For the life of her, she can't remember, but she's throbbing like a drum.
A coliform toxin... "My throbbing headache came in waves. PREY
Smoking the mixture was said to give the user a long lasting, throbbing pain in the head accompanied by nausea.
It is a new model with a new name, fresh advertising and it goes faster with a throbbing beat. Times, Sunday Times
He sucked in his breath through his teeth, biting down hard to try and suppress the throbbing left behind by a revolver's bullet's passage.
Then a throbbing in his head and a sensation of smarting assailed him, but he did not stir, for his legs were cramped; and _wash, wash, wash_, the waters were sweeping along nearly to his chest. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
He literally could feel his pulse throbbing through his entire body, his vital drum in a way.
Finally, it can triple as a cowcatcher, much like the ones featured on throbbing steam engines.
You feel a loose grinding sensation and stabs of sharp pain inside your throbbing shoulder.
Perhaps John Terry could assert his throbbing masculinity by wearing shorts so tight that it's touch and go whether you'll self-vasectomise by the end of the 90 minutes. The Guardian World News
The pain crescendoed, spiking in her toes and fingers, an exquisite throbbing that echoed the pounding of her heart. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The temperature is a little cooler, but that throbbing cello voice is still inimitable. Times, Sunday Times
The throbbing in my ears grew louder, and then I remarked that the piping note of the outrush had ceased. First Men in the Moon
His approach appears to be playing them at double-speed and triple-volume, turning the sparse, relaxed soundscape of LP highlight Poor Leno into a throbbing, accelerative monster of a tune.
Hours after watching the film, I can close my eyes and see those incredible battle scenes pulsing and throbbing in my skull.
The music was flowing all around her, pulsating, throbbing, sweeping her up and carrying her away with it.
The five leisurely tracks on Sun Araw's "Off Duty/Boat Trip" (Woodsist) sink into some primordial psychedelic murk: a realm of fuzztone and stereo-panning echoes, wah-wah guitars and stray percussion, throbbing bass lines and distant, barely intelligible vocals. NYT > Home Page
This track's got it all: rhythmic, sharp guitar riffs backed by pounding kick drum and throbbing bass - and the cowbell!
Today, the island's west coast is an ugly strip of marbled shopping malls and the kind of throbbing theme pubs that import their memorabilia wholesale from a warehouse in Wisconsin.
The band funks it up with varying shuffle drum backbeats, throbbing bass lines, a wailing saxophone and feathery keyboard treatments.
He was standing in front of two new checkout aisles with what can only be described as a throbbing bank of technology behind him.
CHAPTER XVI FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOMMY FROM a darkness punctuated with throbbing stabs of fire, Tommy dragged his senses slowly back to life. The Secret Adversary
The pain receded after what seemed like an eternity, fading to a throbbing.
The club was throbbing to the beat of the music.
Her heart was throbbing with excitement.
She loved the throbbing, breathless anticipation of leisurely lovemaking, too—if she could manage to outwait him. Black Magic
He lay awake, his nerves throbbing.
The volume and bass of the music made my limbs ache as my blood vibrated with the sheer throbbing of the beat.
Riesel stood slowly, every muscle throbbing as she performed a few isometrics before putting on clothing. An Experiment in Second-Person Present
The "bookcases" —three triangular set pieces that moved and turned choreographically—became canvases for the disembodied Simon's feelings expressed through light, changing from throbbing, heavily saturated reds and yellows to the most delicate, unwavering pastels. Full-Bodied Arias in a Postorganic World
I suffered the tortures of the damned, and fain would I have scattered my throbbing brains with that last charge of my hand petronel; but ever as I raised it dead A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
My feet were throbbing after the long walk home.
Her head was hammering and throbbing and the bright, sunlight stabbed into her eyes.
THE next time you suffer toothache or throbbing back pain, blame it on evolution. The Sun
The man's eyes darted open as he glanced around the room for a moment, heart pounding and hand throbbing in sympathy with the memory.
He bopped from side to side, slapping out a throbbing bass figure. DESPERADOES
a dull throbbing
When the decay reaches the pulp tissue, the blood vessels, and the nerves that serve the tooth, the pain starts - an insistent throbbing.
Hylas, nor was the rapt of Polyxena more throbbingly resented and condoled by Priamus and Hecuba, than this aforesaid accident would be sympathetically bemoaned, grievous, ruthful, and anxious to the woefully desolate and disconsolate parents. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Europe meets Asia and antiquity meets a young, throbbing, vibrant city as hell-bent on enjoyment and innovation as any city in the West.
When she asperged the warm water with cologne, -- it was her secret delight and greatest effort of economy to buy this cologne, -- she always had one little moment of what she called faintness -- that faintness which had veiled her eyes, and chained her hands, and stilled her throbbing bosom, when as a bride she came from the church with him. Balcony Stories
I woke up with a throbbing headache .
Feather vibration in the slipstream produces the remarkable throbbing known as ‘drumming’.
Darius scowled blackly at the memory, his head still throbbing painfully from the spy's vicious assault.
You can ease the throbbing pain. The Sun
Using primitive, sometimes handmade equipment, they would drench the instrumental backing track in reverb and echo, then add sound effects to build a throbbing, psychedelic stew. Boing Boing
Everything appears brazen and hard and mighty, suggestive of Angelo's own throbbing spirit and maddened soul.
so i bet Johnny was pretty smug there in his pseudo-retirement. i bet he thought he was in the clear. i'm sure he never figured he'd surf the web and catch his name in a paragraph that prominently featured the words "puckered," "throbbing," "turgid," and "Orlando Bloom." silly Johnny. fics are for chicks, and you made a pirate movie reminding us of the joys of boys in eyeliner. And now another installment toward my unending quest to prove an embarrassment to SAU
I woke up at 6am wondering why my head was throbbing. Times, Sunday Times
I felt relief and exhilaration - also a dull, throbbing pain in my arm. Times, Sunday Times
My heart surged and pushed a huge quantity of blood into my brain and I leaned against the wall with my vision throbbing red. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Her entire body was soon sore as she managed to sit up, rubbing at her throbbing head, trying to massage her temples.
She had a major, throbbing headache and there was really nothing to lose.
A single downpour can rapidly transform a lifeless, shallow depression in the desert into a pool throbbing with life.
Stone kept backing away until he bumped into the throbbing compressor. CORMORANT
From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms). The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
The sun had passed the high mark and started down toward late afternoon, and his arm was throbbing badly.
Then, the first thing that I do think about is how much my foot and the phantom pain is throbbing.
Be it aching, burning, gnawing, stabbing, twisting, throbbing or agonizing pain.
That throbbing voice, that piercing look, that body pickled in torment! Times, Sunday Times
He became aware of the pulse throbbing in his head.
I opened my eyes, my head throbbing. Anti-Ice
She lowered her head and took the tip of the throbbing rod between her lips.
My headache faded to a dull throbbing.
Though, trust me, the ankle was throbbing. Times, Sunday Times
The throbbing synths and sweet vocals on Bourgeois are begging for a huge house remix. The Sun
The throbbing chords of Blink-182's songs had driven the eerie faerie melodies right out of her head. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
The snappy editing, rapid montage sequences and throbbing soundtrack give the film tremendous pace in its early stages and that is matched by some funny moments.
You bust out 'cuboid,' setting all my nerve endings a-tingle, but then use the limp 'perfectly sine regularity' in lieu of say the throbbing 'perfect sinusoidal regularity' or the magnificently necropriapic 'cold dead sinusoidal character'? Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 6: Lord of Chaos (1994)
I wrapped my arm around his neck and pulled him close, hugging him tightly, and ignoring my throbbing arm.
The pump chattered for a few moments, then settled down to a deeper, steady throbbing.
My heart was still thumping; my head throbbing.
It is the unsuspected forces, hidden to the eyes of men, -- the forces imprisoned in the soil and the stimuli of alternating flash of light and the gloomings of darkness these and many others will be found to maintain the ceaseless activity which we know as the fulness of throbbing life. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
Far overhead, the size of a pteranodon, a featherwing beetle, smallest of the insects, drifted along on its cushion of air, wings a throbbing blur, beyond it patches of blue sky in the green veil. Asimov's Science Fiction
By midday, Ashley was tired, hungry and her back was throbbing, but she never once complained.
A single downpour can rapidly transform a lifeless,(Sentencedict) shallow depression in the desert into a pool throbbing with life.
the throbbing engine of the boat
The temperature is a little cooler, but that throbbing cello voice is still inimitable. Times, Sunday Times
Her head was throbbing and she ached all over.
Even under these circumstances imagination, as though rebelling against the conditions of sunshine and summer then maintaining, leaped to picture Mên Scryfa under the black screaming of winter storm or rising darkly upon deep snows; casting a transitory shadow over a waste ghastly blue under flashes of lightning, or throbbing to its deep roots when thunder roared over the moor and the levin brand hissed unseen into quag and fen. Lying Prophets
Having the most intense throbbing agonising pain in my head
To achieve supremacy the one had to create a throbbing actuality, a world of keenest living, of acts and intervolved situations and episodes: the other to fashion a mentality so passionately alive that its manifold phases should have all the reality of concrete individualities. Life of Robert Browning
Her blood pulsed quickly, throbbing waves rushing against the sand, salt burning into her wounds as she tried to escape the thoughts, tried to block them out…
A definite degree of discordancy amidst the throbbing here... Readers recommend: discordant songs
I don't care if it's him blasting "load after sticky load" from his "throbbing manhood" or her "twizzling goop" from her shemale "protuberance;" hot sex scenes need a beginning, a middle, and a goddamn happy ending. Jeff Klima: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Love Scenes
Never once was he so far from them that they could have exchanged a word unchaperoned by his throbbing ear. Penrod and Sam
Callahan's knuckles were scabbed, all cracked and red and throbbing dully when she paid attention to them.
She knew Guy could feel the sudden acceleration of her pulse, but she could do nothing to stop the traitorous throbbing.
Belladonna is given to people who are feverish and have a sudden throbbing headache.
Even the bruise on his forehead, the one he'd got falling downstairs days ago, was throbbing again.
He picked up the pace into a ragged shamble, his knee throbbing with pain. CORMORANT
Recorders whistle through delay pedals, tracing out skeletal melodies in a haze of chimes and throbbing bass as cymbals roll and drums rumble through ever-shifting pulse patterns.
For a change he hadn't been sea sick, even having to share a six berth cabin, throbbing with the heat and noise of the engine, deep in the bowels of the ferry.
My feet were throbbing after the long walk home.
He bent over a little and rubbed his head, it was already throbbing from before so another knock didn't make him feel any better.
Popular Italian tenor sings opera arias and throbbing ballads. Times, Sunday Times
This afternoon, I spent about an hour gently massaging my throbbing temples.
The walls are throbbing gently to the beat of music coming from one near and several more distant amplifiers.
I have had several blistered fingers and throbbing arms from the evil socket.
The finger was removed almost immediately, but not before Isabel had felt the throbbing pulse against her lips.
The pain startled him out of his thoughts, but a quick rub of the injury relieved the throbbing.

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