THROBBING in a Sentence

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1. A blue vein throbbed in his forehead.
2. She felt her heart give a great throb.
3. The back of my neck throbbed painfully.
4. Her heart was throbbing with excitement.
5. Her head was throbbing and she ached all over.

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 Meanings and Examples of THROBBING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
throbbing
 a.  beating or pounding strongly
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  Atlanta, the heart of the Confederacy, was still beating full and strong, the railroads that were its arteries throbbing with the never-ending flow of men, munitions and supplies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Her head was hammering and throbbing and the bright, sunlight stabbed into her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  Melanie's thin hand was at her throat, clutching it as if it was torn with pain, and Scarlett could see the veins beneath the white skin throbbing swiftly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  Her head was throbbing with fatigue, and she had to go over the figures again and again; but at last it became clear to her that she had lost three hundred dollars at cards.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  But Lily, though her attitude was as calm as his, was throbbing inwardly with a rush of thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  Lily was throbbing with fear, but the insinuation fortified her resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  His impulse was to return to her side, to fall on his knees, and rest his throbbing head against the peaceful cheek on the pillow.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
8  On the edge of the prairie, where the sun had gone down, the sky was turquoise blue, like a lake, with gold light throbbing in it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
9  The blood was pounding in his brain like an engine's throbbing; there was a frightful pain in the top of his skull, and he could hardly control his hands.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
10  Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  When the throbbing I had seen before, came into it as I looked at her, she absolutely lifted up her hand, and struck it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
12  I saw the flashing black eyes, and the passion-wasted figure; and I saw the scar, with its white track cutting through her lips, quivering and throbbing as she spoke.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
13  He felt that his heart was throbbing, and that he, too, like the mare, longed to move, to bite; it was both dreadful and delicious.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
14  And again at the old sore places, hope and then despair poisoned the wounds of her tortured, fearfully throbbing heart.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 30
15  He could hardly speak for the throbbing ache in his strong teeth, that were like rows of ivory in his mouth.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  My feet were throbbing after the long walk home.
2  Both records have a good throbbing bass which is great to dance to.
3  Her head was throbbing and she ached all over.
4  Her heart was throbbing with excitement.
5  When the band plays "Time to Get Ill," the Garden is shaking, the cameras are vibrating and you can almost feel the bass throbbing in your body.
6  Such was her obsession for collecting any memorabilia of her heart throb, that she stole about a million dollars from her employer, North Kesteven District Council, to fund her habit.
7  She felt her heart give a great throb.
8  The back of my neck throbbed painfully.
9  A blue vein throbbed in his forehead.