Example Sentences

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His ear had been throbbing for about two months, and it was just one of several ailments that had come up during the course of the season.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

A heart that but an hour ago had been throbbing with warm love—and that love for me—was now cold and still.

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.

The midshipman’s heart, which had been throbbing with excitement a few minutes before, sank down now like lead, as he waited to hear the sounds again, but waited in vain.

From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.

Evidently Democracy had been throbbing with a passion for Protection hitherto unknown, even to itself.

From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

It was a sleepy cow-town still, and yet, as he now recalled, a new pulse had been throbbing its arteries of late.

From The Cow Puncher by Stead, Robert J. C.