throe

How To Use throe In A Sentence

• The Jet Ranger arced upwards, a big prehistoric pterodactyl lurching blindly in its death throes.
• Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• a country in the throes of economic collapse
• Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife? Archive 2009-09-01
• But he want be able to throe her under a bus, to the back of the bus, to the front of the bus, or in front of the bus. Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate
• The ship made a groaning sound in its death throes. The Sun
• If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period - the throes of a revolution.
• Likewise, half said that any man who looked after his appearance was often wrongly accused of being in the throes of midlife crisis. Times, Sunday Times
• Passion that exists from the beginning of time to the end of eternity emerging in uncontrollable throes like the surging and neaping of the tide and the wind
• death throes