Example Sentences

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This year the book trade's hot-stove league has throbbed with several questions: Can Peter Benchley snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory?

From Time Magazine Archive

The heart that has throbbed so many nights in fear and the breath that has been held for so many footsteps, at last have turned their straining into disease.

From A Certain Rich Man by White, William Allen

Many a pious visit has since been paid to those dim chambers—many a heart, filled with love and pity, has throbbed above those coffin lids—many a tear has dropped upon them.

From Speeches from the Dock, Part I by Various

My heart will never throb as it has throbbed; never rejoice as it has rejoiced; for she who lived but for me, who doubled all my joys, is gone!

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Then, after the joy has throbbed itself out and my reaction takes shape as consciousness, I set myself to consider the sources and the processes of my experience.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge