(v. i.) To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.
(n.) A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:
Example Sentences:
(1) The first case was a 51-year-old woman who suffered from a sudden attack of throbbing headache in the parieto-temporal region, accompanied by nausea, after 20 minutes of swimming practice in a pool.
(2) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(3) (When you flick the switch, the bulb's light "throbs" and when it reaches the brightness you require, you flick the switch again to set it.)
(4) Members of its armed wing, in black masks and toting large guns, took control of Gaza streets as the deep throb of resistance songs blasted from speakers.
(5) Politics throbbed through every line of the speech.
(6) The idea the government can push people from their homes with no discussion seems normal in Lagos Robert Neuwirth Close-up, though, it throbs with the kind of energy that marks Lagos out and has made it a darling of urban theorists.
(7) Long before kick-off the locals broke out fireworks, flags and throbbing chants to generate the atmosphere that convinces Bosnia to stage critical matches in a dinky 12,000-seat stadium in the city of Zenica, far from the capital, Sarajevo.
(8) Atypical facial pain was first described by Temple Fay in 1927 as a vascular syndrome of dull, throbbing pain situated deep in the eye and malar region often referred toward the ear, lateral neck, and shoulders.
(9) He came round after a few seconds with a throbbing headache but advanced into a firing position on open ground to protect an evacuation helicopter.
(10) Histamine given intravenously to asthmatic patients produces less of a bronchial response than when given by aerosol, even though the intravenous route produces many more systemic symptoms, such as flushing and throbbing headache.
(11) I don't drive, I have no interest in cars, I've never had the fantasy of nailing a nurse on the hood of my Buick or of being picked up by a bare-boobed biker chick riding a throbbing Harley.
(12) At night the towers turn red, hectic, throbbing with a demonic glow that takes my breath away.
(13) We have explored the underlying mechanism of this effect by comparing h alpha CGRP infused so as to maintain heart rate 25-30% above baseline with glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) in a dose sufficient to maintain a throbbing headache.
(14) Isn't it strange, then, that he has become a heart-throb and that women… He stops me before I'm finished.
(15) Underneath its ghoulish milieu, Penny Dreadful throbs with a big, bruised heart and a baroque web of emotional nuance.
(16) I've seen teenage girls doggedly following rock bands, or pop stars, or heart-throb actors around, but I've never come across teenage girls following a model around before.
(17) Half of the patients described their headache as a steady ache but throbbing pain was reported in about one third.
(18) For a week each year at Carnival, they embody exuberance with a pulsating parade of spectacular floats, gyrating dancers and bateria throbbing with the rhythms of tamborims , chocalhos , surdos and drums.
(19) On a sideboard, not yet opened, is a magnum of Grand Siècle champagne, sent by her label when Goulding's summer single, Burn – throbbing, clubby, ubiquitous – went to No 1 for three weeks in July.
(20) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.
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Definition:
(v. t.) To put in agony.
(n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
(n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
(v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(2) And then in the final throes, more than enough incident for a whole game!
(3) Now, after 30 years of direct funding by government grant, with little scrutiny, it is in the throes of the rudest of awakenings, from leaks about zero-rated programmes to critics who say it had too much money.
(4) Gordimer won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, a novel about a white South African who loses everything, and the Nobel Prize in 1991, when apartheid was in its death throes.
(5) The quarter-on-quarter leap in lending is the biggest since 2007, when the housing market boom was in its final throes.
(6) NYSE Euronext, which runs the New York Stock exchange and the London futures exchange and is itself in the throes of being taken over by a rival, is setting up a new London-based subsidiary to run Libor.
(7) Commentators have been queuing up to analyse the death throes of the paid-for printed news model.
(8) Yes, during its death throes, our sun will swell, boiling the oceans and turning the ice caps to steam.
(9) As described by Bloomberg, the US is in the throes of a major shift in energy production.
(10) Developed and developing countries are in the throes of environmental crisis.
(11) What the family could not entirely grasp on that day was that Mississippi was in the throes of a new statewide campaign of cross-burnings and violence organised by the Klan to protest at the start of investigations by Congress into civil rights abuses.
(12) Indeed, many would argue that Turkey was already in the throes of a slow motion coup d’état, not by the military but by Erdoğan himself.
(13) It seems such an awfully long time ago now, the Preston and Chantelle romance, long enough ago anyway that Big Brother was still a cultural force, or, at least, still watched by significant numbers of people, and not in the awful embarrassing death throes it's currently experiencing nightly on Channel 4.
(14) It is now in the throes of a contest between two candidates whose personal and professional backgrounds seem to illustrate the fault lines in current policy debate.
(15) Mickey is a guy who clearly can't cut it as an assassin or anything else: a depressive, an alcoholic, a person who we encounter in the virtual death throes of his professional and personal existence.
(16) Updated at 3.00pm BST 1.16pm BST More from Turkey Constanze Letsch has sent this from Istanbul: Fehim Tastekin writes in the daily Radikal: "It is natural that many smile that the UU received the prize at a time when it seems in its death throes.
(17) Austin is in the throes of a multi-pronged crisis within his command.
(18) Tsipras has persistently surprised and out-manoeuvred his opposite numbers, but without securing any net gains for a country in the throes of financial collapse.
(19) For a country in the throes of separatism, the World Cup is providing almost a surreal glue of unity.
(20) The question of how Australia ought to respond to Indochinese refugees had been hotly debated between April and August 1975 but had been overshadowed by the death throes of the Whitlam government.