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Throb in sentence

16 examples of Throb in a sentence

They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watchband or the throb of an ingrown toenail.
I watch it fondly now with all the awkwardness of Baby's first days and her first true love with Patrick Swayze as heart throb, Johnny Castle.
Hard to believe that anyone could reject this beauty for any reason, but Louis Jourdan, her heart throb, does just this.
Nonetheless, it is about a 13 year old who pretends she is 16 to gain the attentions of a 17 year old high school student who aspires to be a singer Rex Smith, who was a minor teen heart throb at the time is fine.
Then we sit and sob, and long for the gas-lit streets, and the sound of human voices, and the answering throb of human life.
The eyes of the affectionate sister were turned in anxiety, for a moment, on her brother, and glancing again on their unknown guest, met his look, as he offered her, with marked attention, one of the little civilities of the table; and the heart of the girl, which had begun to throb with violence, regained a pulsation as tempered as youth, health, and buoyant spirits could allow.
Presently a great jet of white smoke burst from the ferryboat's side, and as it expanded and rose in a lazy cloud, that same dull throb of sound was borne to the listeners again.
I suppose it was, for I did not hear it so as to understand it, which was the gentlewoman that sent him; for the messenger said, 'There she is, sir'; at which he comes directly up to me, kisses me, took me in his arms, and embraced me with so much passion that he could not speak, but I could feel his breast heave and throb like a child, that cries, but sobs, and cannot cry it out.
A minute--an age!--passed, during which he endeavored to catch the faintest throb of the heart.
With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing.
First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.
The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone.
My heart beat fast and thick: I heard its throb.
On calmdays he would hear the snorting throb of the screw, and feel theswift flight of the ship, bearing him on in its unpausing, regular,exasperating race.
The beating of his heart with unusual throb was evident under his scarlet tunic; his breathing grew short, and the expressions that fell from his lips were broken.
Every throb of his heart was a prayer then.