How to Use throb in a Sentence

throb

1 of 2 verb

• Her finger throbbed with pain.
• The music throbs with a Caribbean beat.
• That's why my leg is throbbing.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
• That’s why my leg is throbbing.
  — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• That’s why my leg is throbbing.
  — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• His wrists throbbed in time with his heart and kept him awake at night.
  — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Bangkok pulses and seethes, throbs and growls.
  — Tom Parker Bowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2024
• The kind of tired where your face vibrates and your eyes throb.
  — Lyz Lenz, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2018
• My calves and thighs often throbbed, my waist ached and my knees swelled.
  — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
• Their cheers blend in with the music that throbs as the clock ticks down on the chefs.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
• Their throbbing dance videos are shot in mansions and on yachts.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
• The long rod arched and throbbed as a steelhead thrashed to the surface.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
• While the game is played across the country, its pulse throbs in Rio.
  — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 28 Dec. 2025
• The right side of my face is throbbing — except for my mouth, which is numb.
  — Lisa Haney, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
• Pain that is not a word throbs in his shoulders, awakens him each morning.
  — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Pain that is not a word throbs in his shoulders, awakens him each morning.
  — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 6 Jan. 2026
• Adrenaline throbbing through my veins made the steep slope an easy climb.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 July 2017
• Her hand and arm cramped, her shoulder ached, and her knee throbbed, all while the rain soaked through their clothes.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
• And judging by the throbbing snippet that caps off the video they might not be done.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
• 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
• Not only is my hip hurting, but my left knee for some reason is throbbing.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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
• That blue vein in her temple was really throbbing now.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Every muscle throbs; 56 is the new 55, tops.
  — Abby Ellin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
• The memory of them throbbed like a splinter that had never been removed.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• Wind throbbed in ears, and whipped up whitecaps on the Potomac River.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• The young heart throb plays new recruit Matt Brody, a disgraced Olympian.
  — Marcy Medina | Wwd, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 May 2017

throb

2 of 2 noun

• The pain has changed to a dull throb.
• The pain is sharp at first, but turns into a dull throb over the second half.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• Against my temple, the feed from her tracker throbs like a second pulse.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
• The throb of a motor catches my attention.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• The conclusion of your letter makes my heart throb more than a cannonade.
  — CBS News, 9 Aug. 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
• Long days of narration pummel my throat, a throb that never really goes away.
  — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
• From now on, the days shorten, football intrudes, the dull throb of daily obligation gets in the way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• The timing—the beat, the lag, the throb of the void—between stimulus and reaction.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
• Justin Bieber, then a wholesome teen heart-throb, meets Baldwin backstage at the Today show.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 9 July 2018
• Not that anybody would have noticed amid the bedlam and the throb of Newcastle’s grand, old stadium.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 12 May 2025
• 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 music throbs and flourishes; so does the stage, loaded up with gondolas and chandeliers, fog and fashion and fur and roller-skates.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Portugal’s coastline throbs with beach goers and sports enthusiasts.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• 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
• No one wants to deal with the relentless ache, limited range of motion, stabbing jolts or that deep, burning throb that makes even turning your head feel impossible.
  — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 26 July 2025
• The ’70s-evoking folk fare that dots the front half of the record greatly contrasts with the dance floor throb of the latter, and few of the hooks hit as hard as some of her previous work.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 30 May 2025
• So the production is impeccable, getting the period details right and exact, down to the last slap-bass throb, while also sounding fresh and up to date.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
• 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
• The dull throb of electronica intruded on a comfortably organic and analog approach.
  — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 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
• 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
• 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
• The song may be six minutes long, but the circuitous lope of his acoustic-guitar strum and low throb of his warbling feel eternal, like the type of tune Sisyphus might have hummed to keep himself company.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
• 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