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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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
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
Yes, Torquato! her bosom had throbbed to yours, often and often, before the organ-peel shook the fringes round the catafalc.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
How her heart had throbbed and beaten since then! been tried and strained to its very utmost.
From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood
Tireless, our engines, day and night, A month had throbbed their endless round Without a pause to mark time's flight.
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
