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Example sentences for "bobbed"

Lexicographically close words:
boats; boatsteerer; boatswain; boatswains; boatyard; bobbery; bobbies; bobbin; bobbinet; bobbing
  1. As the straw hats bobbed hysterically up and disappeared again, the men of the two battalions began stumbling and lying grotesquely down in the rice-fields.

  2. Then the straw hats that had heretofore bobbed up only to fire and bob down again, moved about in the open, and watched the Americanos playing baseball.

  3. He brought out grass and leaves; he sat down in front of his house and whistled: at this whistle a multitude of rabbits bobbed up from beneath the ground.

  4. Hence arose the proverb: “He has bobbed up like Philip from the hemp.

  5. The water was choppy and roily, the canoe bobbed a good deal, the anchors dragged, and we did not see any fish.

  6. The mother bobbed up and down in evident consternation, walked away, came back, and with an eye on me plainly sought to pacify her fledgling.

  7. But yes, the wind rose, the mist began to lift, the water was running lazily from under our keel, the little boat bobbed and danced to a leisurely tune.

  8. She had ceased now even to look where my head bobbed among the waves; her face was lifted towards the sky.

  9. Chitta bobbed toward Cartaret's rifled stores and then toward the street, as if to include other stores in the same circle of depredation.

  10. Next to Cartaret's place bobbed the pear-shaped Devignes, leading the chorus, as became the only professional singer in the company.

  11. The negro bobbed as he made the proper change--and returned it to his own pocket.

  12. The heads of the men bobbed as they advanced, stepping in and out of craters, and wove in and out as they passed around craters.

  13. It was exclusively an infantry fight except for the machine-guns and the baby soixante-quinze or 37-millimeter guns, in which the heads of the Americans bobbed through the thickets in search of the hidden heads of the defenders.

  14. Joe took the ice-hook and prodded about on the bottom, every prod bringing up one or two bits of ice, each one as it bobbed to the surface showing its sandy side for a moment and then turning over, clean side up.

  15. But he had scarcely said so, when, to our surprise, several bits of rough ice about as big as my hand bobbed up from the bottom.

  16. And she could not help looking at her shadow; indeed, she waited for the gas-lamps, still watching the Punch as it bobbed about.

  17. She walked with such a limp that the shadow bobbed almost topsy-turvy at every step she took; it looked like a real Punch!

  18. The Man-Fish bobbed up his head and sang: "Follow me.

  19. A black object bobbed up occasionally, then disappeared.

  20. The boys fell over each other in a heap at the bottom of the dory, and there they lay while the thing bobbed alongside, held on the shortened line.

  21. The fishermen pressed forward as that town official who had talked to Cheyne bobbed up on the platform and began to read the year's list of losses, dividing them into months.

  22. Only it all goes to show how we've bobbed up in the last twenty years.

  23. If you want to know how we've bobbed up, look at here," the Cleveland man tells you.

  24. And Dolly smiled across the room at Tod and Tad, who bobbed their heads and grinned in response.

  25. Dotty's eyes blazed and her black curls bobbed as she shook her head angrily at the doctor.

  26. While they were conversing, well past the short radius of the flash lamp's glare, a massive black head bobbed up and down with the waves.

  27. Instead, he bobbed up inside of the negro's reach.

  28. A bottle bobbed about, carried now here now there by the playful waves.

  29. Then the detective bobbed up in the box to produce the implements of forgery and the records of crime found at Mr. Smith's lodging.

  30. Pieter gave a triumphant little exclamation and waded into shallow water to pick up something that bobbed back and forth.

  31. Tied to the pier, a saucy twenty-six-foot Mackinaw boat, much like the Spray, bobbed up and down.

  32. The Chinese guide smirked, and bobbed his head in the affirmative.

  33. The yellow-skinned guide smirked, and nodded his head until his pigtail bobbed up and down like a bell rope.

  34. Fowler’s red forelock bobbed over his high forehead as he nodded vigorously.

  35. Croaker tossed his head so high his limber ear bobbed in the murky air.

  36. They turned to him at once, their eyes lighted up, and they both vigorously bobbed their heads up and down and seemed to chant sounds of their native tongue.

  37. He bobbed his head, mumbled something, and hurried away.

  38. A squat, chunky Jap, who make Dave think of a fire hydrant with a face, pushed close to the side of the plane, beamed and bobbed his shaven head up and down.

  39. A lantern bobbed by his side, swinging to the tread of the man carrying it.

  40. He was gray-white under his tan, and his head bobbed from side to side with the rocking of the horse's running stride.

  41. The point thudded into the wall scant inches away from Simmy's right ear, and the little man's head bobbed down so that his nose hit one of his hunched-up knees.

  42. Hale had bobbed out of his inner room again, shepherding before him a Negro boy who walked with exaggerated caution, balancing a tray on which stood four tall glasses, beaded with visible moisture.

  43. A lantern bobbed along in their direction.

  44. He cackled and Van Dorn's Adam's apple bobbed like a cork upon a wave.

  45. But the Captain's Adam's apple bobbed convulsively in a second silence.

  46. His Adam's apple bobbed like a cork, and no one spoke.

  47. The Cardinal laughed a little and Zoro cawed, and bobbed up and down.

  48. Manguino bobbed in the water and Orren just stood there.

  49. Zoro bobbed up and down while sitting on Boyce's shoulder and it cawed in a frantic manner.

  50. The shaggy man bowed, too, and Button-Bright bobbed his head and said "Hello.

  51. He soon bobbed up, and the shaggy man seized him by his sailor collar and dragged him to the shore, dripping and gasping for breath.

  52. The children joined hands and went skipping along the path toward the playhouse, Helen's bobbed yellow locks shining in the sun and Rosanna's long, heavy, dark hair swinging from side to side as she danced along.

  53. Rosanna's long curls were blown every which way around her small, dark face, and Helen's bobbed hair was sticking straight up.

  54. Yes, I'm safe enough; but wet just the same; the thing bobbed under.

  55. She sprang outward, and came down, sinking to her knees, and clinging fast, as the raft bobbed up and down under her sudden weight, dipping until the water rolled completely over it.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bobbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.