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Example sentences for "bouncing"

Lexicographically close words:
boun; bounce; bounced; bouncers; bounces; bound; boundaries; boundary; bounde; bounded
  1. Bowling with a long bouncing run, he can make the ball flick higher and faster from the pitch than any other bowler in this our third class.

  2. I took 28 off the first three overs, six of them fours, mostly well off the off stump, bouncing up against the canvas at square leg.

  3. Among all the famous slow left-handers there is one that to me stands out more clearly than the rest, whether his striking personality—for who did not know that bouncing ball of a man?

  4. It is truly incredible how Alvina became blooming and bouncing at this time.

  5. When she had put on flesh and become pink and bouncing she was just their sort: just their very ticket.

  6. Again the short run, the smooth, upward flight, the slower descent, the bouncing along to a stop.

  7. That put her out, and after her old bouncing fashion she flew upstairs, caught her frock in the old hitch at the turn, and half tore off a flounce.

  8. When the stomach is full, the failure to lay the baby down quietly, as is so often seen in those homes where bouncing and jolting are practiced, may also result in vomiting.

  9. Beyond their pale, a humbler throng, Grew Bouncing Bet and columbine; The mountain fringe ran all along The thick-set hedge of cinnamon roses, And overhung the eglantine.

  10. As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

  11. A bouncing youngster leaned out of its perambulator to dance its arms.

  12. It is hard to tell what is the significance of the name Bouncing Bet, perhaps the most popular of all the names by which this plant is known.

  13. The plant commonly called Soapwort or Bouncing Bet also bears other popular names, many of which are purely local.

  14. Sim Westover was sitting on a suitcase that refused to close and bouncing up and down in an effort to bring the yawning leather jaws together.

  15. In a surprisingly short time the little car was bouncing up the road with the three girls huddled together in it bound for the village.

  16. Since someone was bouncing a spurious Rose on his uncle, he must delay, he decided, no longer--must dash in with the true Rose at once.

  17. Moreover, she jumped up and down on my prospective telescope, bouncing before my eyes in all her bigness.

  18. Near them stood Mrs. Sprockett's husband, bouncing the Sprockett baby in his arms and smiling and nodding his head to Alma whenever her face showed to him from her mother's embrace.

  19. The black-jack fell from Louie's upraised hand, bouncing as it hit his shoulder and dropped to the floor.

  20. Jerry shot his tesselated pads forward, trying to push and pummel the thing away, but the few blows that landed rebounded from that shiny body like pith-balls bouncing from an electrostatic plate.

  21. By eleven the family were back in Loschwitz, sitting down, starved, to a bouncing supper where frequently Kirtley regaled himself with the toothsome Pumpernickel.

  22. Her affectations were so utterly out of keeping with her round rosy face and tall bouncing figure, I could hardly refrain from laughing as I watched her.

  23. I was beginning to think Mrs. White a good sort of body in spite of all her bouncing and boasting, her bad grammar and worse orthography, but I have had experience of one little trait in her character which condemns her a long way with me.

  24. If she can, I'll be shot, said my father, bouncing out of bed in the dark, and groping for his breeches.

  25. Passepartout was wrapped in uneasy dreams of the bouncing of the day before.

  26. John Bunsby had requested his passengers to go below; but this imprisonment in so narrow a space, with little air, and the boat bouncing in the gale, was far from pleasant.

  27. Bouncing Bet is too cheerful and rollicking a wanderer to awaken sentiment.

  28. Sometimes a bed of these orange-tawny Day Lilies which had once been warmly welcomed from the Orient, and now were not wanted anywhere by any one, kept company with the Bouncing Bet, and stretched cheerfully down the roadside.

  29. The bouncing creature with untidy hair, and her clothes pitchforked on to her?

  30. A bouncing creature who never sits down; to whom rest or calm is unknown, and whose highest ambition will be to see the Tower and the wax-works.

  31. She was bouncing in her manner, lofty in her speech, pleasant in her smile, and a little haughty in her bearing, but always cheerful.

  32. Mrs. Jarney was as bouncing as ever in her sprightliness.

  33. The maids and waiters were rushing about excitedly, and Mr. Jarney was pacing the floor with nervous movements; and the little bouncing lady, all in pink, was ringing her hands and crying.

  34. The sea was growing lumpy when the whale-boat came bouncing back with our senior officer.

  35. It made a kind of a wabbly base; besides hauling the hammer out every time it jumped into the river, they had to see that it didn't come bouncing down atop of their own heads or through the canoe deck.

  36. The 323 was bouncing pretty lively, but hanging onto her twenty knots.

  37. And how do you account for her bouncing along at twenty knots or more in a gale of wind and a rough sea, and nothing happening them?

  38. He saw the mine bouncing up and down between the mine-sweeper's quarter and his own ship's side.


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