How to Use throb in a Sentence

throb

1 of 2 verb

• Her finger throbbed with pain.
• The music throbs with a Caribbean beat.
• The slits in his arms well And throb like storm creeks.
  — David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Their cheers blend in with the music that throbs as the clock ticks down on the chefs.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
• Their cheers blend in with the music that throbs as the clock ticks down on the chefs.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
• The long rod arched and throbbed as a steelhead thrashed to the surface.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
• The kind of tired where your face vibrates and your eyes throb.
  — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2018
• His wrists throbbed in time with his heart and kept him awake at night.
  — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2020
• The right side of my face is throbbing — except for my mouth, which is numb.
  — Lisa Haney, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
• The young heart throb plays new recruit Matt Brody, a disgraced Olympian.
  — Marcy Medina | Wwd, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• The pain surfaced in 2011, when Olsen awoke in the middle of the night in France, drenched in sweat, his stomach throbbing.
  — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• The first sign of a cold sore is usually a throbbing pain in your lip for about one or two days.
  — Dr. Leslie Baumann, miamiherald, 19 Feb. 2018
• Here's the thing: All piercings will probably sting, maybe bleed, and then throb for a few hours.
  — Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 3 July 2019
• Perhaps the bass guitar throbs from your right side, the synth from the left, and the kick drum is an additive force on both sides.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 Jan. 2019
• The screen turns scarlet and sinuous, and begins to throb.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Adrenaline throbbing through my veins made the steep slope an easy climb.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
• The Hébuterne portraits throb with the passion this couple clearly shared.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
• Her skin bled from being rubbed by the constraints, the latex made her face swell, and her back throbbed from being stooped.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• On stage, in public view, the show is a sea of noise and head-banging and throbbing male energy.
  — Peter Hamby, The Hive, 4 Dec. 2017
• Soon thick black smoke is billowing into the air and the street throbs with the buzzing of electricity.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Manning's testicles throbbed as if every day he'd been kicked in the groin anew.
  — Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
• Then both of my shoulder blades started hurting, and then my chest and throat were throbbing.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
• That’s why my leg is throbbing.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• The book club regularly meets to discuss romance novels in all their sticky, sweaty, throbbing passions.
  — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
• Pain that is not a word throbs in his shoulders, awakens him each morning.
  — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 6 Jan. 2026
• While the game is played across the country, its pulse throbs in Rio.
  — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 28 Dec. 2025
• The air was throbbing with the sounds of helicopters coming close and pulling away.
  — Karan Mahajan, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
• The song now opens with throbbing synth bass that completely transforms its mood and style.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
• Ones where the monster, their creator, or both are possessed by throbbing, animalistic lust.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025

throb

2 of 2 noun

• The pain has changed to a dull throb.
• Even the idea of the long ride on 66 caused a throb in his cracked hip.
  — Tom Hanks, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• It’s not just the heat, this steady throb of chile-pepper capsaicin.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• The trauma sticks to my ribs; sometimes a dull ache, sometimes a sudden pinch, and sometimes a painful throb.
  — Danielle Campoamor, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 May 2018
• From now on, the days shorten, football intrudes, the dull throb of daily obligation gets in the way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• This is how the human race ends: with the shallow clang of metal on metal, a squalling screech, the heavy stomp and throb of percussion.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
• Justin Bieber, then a wholesome teen heart-throb, meets Baldwin backstage at the Today show.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 9 July 2018
• The conclusion of your letter makes my heart throb more than a cannonade.
  — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2022
• The sting of a paper cut or the throb of a dog bite is perceived through the skin, where cells react to mechanical forces and send an electrical message to the brain.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020
• David Portillo, as Ferrando, sings ardently, but his edgy tenor emphasizes a bit of a throb here and there.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
• The lyre’s mournful throb was also heard whenever the Dolphins’ starting quarterback, Josh Rosen, touched the ball.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2019
• Common throughout those years was a pulsing throb in my gums, a shock wave up a root when biting down, a headache that agitated me in classrooms.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 19 May 2017
• The air throbs with dread-inducing electronic tones; the five other cast members enter and sit with their backs to her, not yet caught up in her sad merry-go-round.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• After his wife’s disclosure, he was struck by sudden shame, dull throbs in his throat, sunbursts of confused pain stirred around by the vague teachings of his childhood faith.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
• The throb of the Siberian virtuoso's vibrato and the strength of his bow arm made the slow movement feel like a continuous cantabile line stretching to infinity.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2017
• An aura of dread and violence is summoned by the off-center images, the syncopations of the editing and the relentless hum and throb of Jonny Greenwood’s score.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Her songs continued to toggle between moments of twee intimacy and the collectivizing throb of the dance floor.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• If casting shadows over the neighbor’s house doesn’t suffice to intimidate, add the potent baritone throb of a big Hemi V-8 engine.
  — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
• Walking down a modern urban thoroughfare, the throb and dynamism of our benighted race is constantly on show.
  — The School Of Life, CNN, 27 May 2020
• In one of the oldest souks stands Bakdash, a shop more than a century old, where booza (Arabic for ice cream) is beaten in buckets with giant wooden mallets, up and down in an inexorable throb.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• His stories taught me that being a fisherman was a life of relentless work; sleepless, gut-churning nights; and endless days punctuated only by the throb of the boat’s engine.
  — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• There’s a disconcerting throb of life in these jigglers, an insistence on being in between, neither solid nor liquid, not quite pacified.
  — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Martin Bourne, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Long days of narration pummel my throat, a throb that never really goes away.
  — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• The throb of a motor catches my attention.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025