through one's head
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Most of all, one is reminded, with the score of “Hamilton” running relentlessly through one’s head, that all of the players in this drama are again alive because a remarkable artist made them live again.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2016
Why need he speak in such a high, rasping voice that it went through one's head like a saw?
From Yiddish Tales by Various
Especially if one has a helpful lilt, rhythmic to dust-cloth's stroke or needle's swing, throbbing like a strain of music through one's head: Cosmos—Cosmos!—Cosmos—Cosmos!
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
And so it is; once, and only once, for each of us; and that is the tune that sings and sings through one’s head when one puts the book away.
From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather
They were like the streams of silly words that run through one's head in a fever, or half-way along the road to sleep; and it was an eternity before they meant anything.
From The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings
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