Example Sentences

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I never know where to go or what to do that will throb with the appropriate meaning.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017

This is the question that will throb at the heart of the vexed relationship between politics and pop for decades to come, and this is the first time it has demanded to be asked.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2011

No messing around, you better train before you show up, because your legs will throb, and your heart will race.

From Time Magazine Archive

I beseech you not to shake your cool, cautious head as usual over your "too youthful" Ausonius: I hope my heart will throb warmly till it ceases to beat.

From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix

Yet our breasts will throb, and the tears will throng To our eyes for many a day, For an eagle in strength and a lark in song Was the spirit that passed away.

From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence