throb
verb (used without object)
to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
had throbbed
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past perfectof throb.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost every day for weeks past the new F4U had been rolled out of the Vought-Sikorsky plant across the road, had throbbed, roared, leaped into the air, whisked out of sight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down the avenue beyond the great gate, the flambeaux clustered and faded and diminished, the band music had throbbed to silence and about them was only the silver, dew-silent night.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
It was as if Nature herself, in supreme anguish and abandonment, had cast herself prone on the earth, and her great heart had throbbed audibly, shaking the world with its beats.
From Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
For two-score years, ere Christ-day light, Mellstock had throbbed to strains from these; But now there echoed on the night No Christmas harmonies.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
