I tell them about what went on in the meeting as we pile into the car and Tom starts the loud, throbbing engine.

Occasionally a group of German airplanes would pass over our column with throbbing engines.

Behind the shattered building, beside a truck with a throbbing engine, some men were speaking German.

His only hope of eluding pursuit lay in the speed of the throbbing engine.

Surely his wife and children heard the copter's throbbing engines.

In the sixth hour, the motorboat's throbbing engines suddenly racheted down, and the boat slowed.

Huge throbbing engines behind that snout of steel.

It was his game, therefore, to keep his army intact, and to let those throbbing engines and whirling propellers do the work of the empire.

The captain increased the throbbing engines, churning a wake behind them.