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
There is feverish inflation, constriction of credit and throbbingly high interest rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Let it be remembered that Miss Burney was the spoiled child of genius, who would still be first and who throbbingly aspired to a social eminence denied her.
From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck
