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
All sorts of things fly through one’s head, especially to-day, when we really are in an exciting position.
From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
What a plague it sometimes is to be hag-ridden by a tune, racing through one's head, with a never-ending always-beginningness, as though a thousand imps were singing it in one's ears.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
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
The roaring seemed to penetrate, and pass through one's head.
From Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida by Oliver Optic
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