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• As Stoller says, "perversion is a sturdy word, throbbing with assumptions, while paraphilia is a wet noodle."2013, B. Protter, S. Travin, Sexual Perversion: Integrative Treatment Approaches for the Clinician, →ISBN. From the entry paraphilia
• She struggled up on her feet, limping sloggingly, leg throbbing, to the door, searching for Steve.2011, Susan Katrinka Butler, Her Education, page 300. From the entry sloggingly
• As always in Lisbon, my heart throbbed semaphores to call Tónio.2008, Katherine Vaz, “Lisbon Story”, in Our Lady of the Artichokes: And Other Portuguese-American Stories, Lincoln, Neb.; London…. From the entry semaphore
• They didn't wheeze from internal motion nor blinkle from synapses throbbing on impulse power.2007, Charlee Jacob, The Indigo People: A Vampire Collection. From the entry blinkle
• You can spot his smartlessness twelve miles away, like a throbbing neon sign.2006, Michelle Tea, chapter 1, in Rose of No Man's Land, review copy edition, San Francisco, CA: MacAdam/Cage, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry smartlessness
• But it's Christmas the morn's morn — It bullered, throbbed like a U-boat, black.2005, John Aberdein, Amande's Bed, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry buller
• For instance, Sony Pictures Imageworks can conjure a throbbing pink brain that lives in a torchlighted castle.2001, The New York Times Film Reviews 1999-2000, page 415. From the entry torchlighted
• She smelled the womanscent of her — the slow ache, the heavy throbbing.1990, Karen Marie Christa Minns, Virago, Naiad Press, page 186. From the entry womanscent
• A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning.1955, John Ray, Jr. [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Foreword”, in Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge]…. From the entry tendresse
• His hands were red-raw, his body nettle-rashed, and his leg throbbed.1952, Frank Clune, Somewhere in New Guinea, Philosophical Library, page 39. From the entry nettle-rashed
• Some comes from the bakeoven heat in the boxcar; some from the pain of throbbing wounds.1950 July 4, “Wounded, Refugees Picture Misery of War”, in The Washington Post, number 27,046, Washington, D.C., page 3. From the entry bakeoven
• A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329. From the entry thready
• The throbbing pain that even now was coursing through his neck and shoulders, making him crick his neck.2012, Doug Johnstone, Hit and Run, Faber & Faber, →ISBN. From the entry crick
• Club music will throb through big speakers.2008, Stephen King, Graduation Weekend. From the entry x
• The idea of the phantom punch hitting his throbbing liver pushed Frank back onto the heels of his plain polished shoes.1998, House on Fire, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry phantom punch
• More meadowlarks were perching along the poles of the jackleg fence, their necklaced throats throbbing as they sang to the Sun.1991, Patricia Nell Warren, chapter 36, in One Is the Sun, New York: Ballantine, page 489. From the entry jackleg fence
• Vraiment, and styled the arcane spirit of We Who Have Gone Before as a slavering goat-creature with an enormous throbbing wong?1957, Guy Bolton, Child of Fortune: A Play in Three Acts. Adoped from "Wings of the Dove", Norman Spinrad, page 177. From the entry wong
• He heard them woollenly, through the throbbing in his head.1955, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Arm-Ring”, in Outcast, London: Oxford University Press, published 1966, page 62. From the entry woollenly
• “Cheese and rice!” he hollered once more before clapping a hand over his mouth and freezing in place as his toe throbbed.2008, Karen Neches, chapter four, in Earthly Pleasures: a novel, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry cheese and rice
• The butt plug began to throb again, and I could feel the tube sucking my cummies out of me, over and over.2007, Mako Allen, Auntie Eva's Boarder, page 107. From the entry cummie
• Health, too, was a consideration, though it was very much pleasure-principle health—the right to wring out every last throb of ecstasy from one's knackered organs.2002 January 26, Howard Jacobson, “A vision that took me back to adolescence, and a lot of American women to childhood”, in Independent…. From the entry pleasure principle
• Moans escaped her, broke out as nerves disturbed into a tingling and acute awakeness, quivered and throbbed with final, and finest sweetfulness of joy.1964, James T[homas] Farrell, chapter 46, in What Time Collects, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, section I, page 338. From the entry sweetfulness
• From somewhere above came the metallic accuracy of a player-piano, and through the open window we could hear—or feel—the throb of the Cannonball’s engine.1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “In the Dining-Room”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, pages 333–334. From the entry player-piano
• Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street.1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 69. From the entry acetylene
• The recollection loosened a throng of benumbed sensations—longings, regrets, imaginings, the throbbing brood of the only spring her heart had ever known.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Book 2, Chapter 11. From the entry loosen
• From the pulsing throb of the very opening, this was a detailed, incisive playing, culminating in an envoi glowing enough to provide the catharsis this programme so uncompromisingly demanded.2009 January 28, Erica Jeal, “LSO/Segerstam”, in The Guardian. From the entry envoi
• Two hours later I stumbled indoors bathed in sweat, throbbing from caterpillar stings, and covered so thickly with red clay that I could have passed for a Romertopf cooker.2001, Fine Gardening, numbers 77-88, page 90. From the entry Romertopf
• The Haunted Wood was full of the groans of mighty trees wrung in the tempest, and the air throbbed with the thunderous crash of billows on the distant shore.1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Book of Revelation”, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 316. From the entry wring
• But this is scarcely a correct assumption, as there are individuals in whom the smallest doses produce palpitation of the heart, throbbing of the carotids, and great mental activity.1900 July 13, George M. Kober, “Shall Alcohol be Considered as a Food?”, in Landon B. Edwards, Charles M. Edwards, editors, Virginia…. From the entry obtuse

Meaning of throb

1. verb To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
2. verb To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
3. verb To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.

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Questions about throb in a sentence

How do you use throb in a sentence?

Throb is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Her heart began to throb faster as the moment approached.”

What is a short sentence with throb?

“I have a throbbing headache.”

What does throb mean?

Throb means to pound or beat rapidly or violently.