throb
verb (used without object)
to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
Example Sentences
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In the role of Sophie’s grandmother, and in a voice still throbbingly low and lusty, she belts out “Fernando.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2018
The second act is different, written for no lovelorn gentlefolk, but for a great primitive mass, sung by them, savagely, hauntingly, throbbingly, masterfully done.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is feverish inflation, constriction of credit and throbbingly high interest rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
At that a fellow legislator noted throbbingly that the spooning spoon-snatcher was wearing a Gandhi cap, the headdress identified with the dominant Congress Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over this happiness Hickory Dock presided throbbingly, and though he balked sometimes and bolted or lagged, he never stopped, and he never struck eleven.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
