heart-throb
Britishnoun
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an object of infatuation
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a heart beat
Example Sentences
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As it now exists, it captures the supernatural tingle of little bells, as well as the heart-throb of gongs, all sounding off in the misty distance.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
The mayor of the capital, Manila, and a former movie heart-throb, has promised zero tolerance of Chinese maritime aggression in the South China Sea and his economic agenda centres on housing, labour, health and infrastructure.
From Reuters • May 9, 2022
Or are you more inclined toward the lead heart-throb in a laugh track-scored sitcom set in a chicken shack?
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2019
His heart-throb status once led to him being mobbed by 30,000 hysterical women at Sydney airport, and he even had his own fashion column in a daily newspaper.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2018
But an aria like Handel’s ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Rinaldo could leave an audience hoarse with cheering as well as weak with emotion, depending on which heart-throb singer was delivering it.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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