How To Use Bounce In A Sentence

  • Three hours packed with a quick-fire century, a couple of bouncers, two-thirds of a hat-trick, a dropped catch, several bowled wickets and innumerable fours and sixers.
  • And it is not clear that he will be sailing into the summer convention with a great deal of brag and bounce.
  • High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
  • I would expect the government to fight a lawsuit trying to prevent something like this, just as I would expect a leg to bounce up when its patellar reflex is hit with a tendon hammer. Matt Kane: The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable
  • They play mini-bouncers, cupids, schoolkids.
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  • However, on first down our big fella fumbles the ball and it bounces right into the hands of one of the players on the other team.
  • I hope this cheque doesn't bounce.
  • The programme first of all explains how a Bouncer works on fitness in general and in rehabilitation plus other problems such as arthritis.
  • Roger is the furriest one, Peter is the skinniest, the Ox is the burliest, and Moonie has the most energy: he bounces in between the other three, never settling down or staying still. Going Mutant
  • But the ball caromed off a tree and bounced back into a bunker, leaving a shot at the green.
  • The ball bounced off her head and Sam let it fall to the ground.
  • We need to bounce back straight away. The Sun
  • Mark the point where the cannon ball strikes the ground and roll the Artillery dice to establish the bounce distance.
  • You can play this shot off any lie, even bare ground if your wedge has minimal bounce.
  • There are games coming thick and fast and you can bounce back quickly. The Sun
  • Some escaped after a bouncer battered down a partition wall. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bounces around and deflects off of D mc T for an own goa … nope, not done (throws up). DC United vs. Houston game diary and player ratings
  • The man, who was dealt a severe blow on the farming front last weekend when he lost his entire herd of healthy livestock to foot and mouth, bids to bounce back at Aintree tomorrow.
  • I bounce a few more cheery sentences off her, but she has withdrawn into her shell.
  • A pitch of consistent bounce and enough pace to hurry the ball on to the bat aided confident strokeplay.
  • Her naturally loud voice seemed to bounce off the walls.
  • There are games coming thick and fast and you can bounce back quickly. The Sun
  • Could it be that another juror is about to be bounced from the case?
  • Short sound waves bounce off even small objects.
  • If we selloff today and break this trendline we bounce next week.
  • After a few more passes, she missed the ball, and it bounced off behind her.
  • The bouncer very roughly bounced him out of the saloon.
  • We had no TV, so we had no idea what a Sobers sweep or a Hall bouncer actually looked like; we were left to interpolate between newspaper stills and glossies from cricket books.
  • For three years, the seismometers recorded how seismic waves from hundreds of earthquakes worldwide bounced through the mantle.
  • If you roll a misfire for the bounce the cannon ball has stuck in the ground and does not bounce. 6.
  • Both of William's shots bounced off the rim of the basket.
  • The acrobat bounced high from the ground.
  • People in the audience will go to nightclubs and know what bouncers are like, so the cast needs to look real.
  • The Beast with a small softbox bounced off a wall to the right and a snooted light in another room to the left. Grilled grin
  • On video, the shots just seem to bounce off him - he is not known for his skill but for his ruggedness and aggression, so it should be an exciting fight.
  • This continues until the universe is so hot that there is _no_ matter-dominated phase, after which it just bounces along isentropically but never forms structure again. Against Bounces
  • But then a bouncer single-handedly pushes them all back, tipping the crowd three steps down the steps. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • They will have expected you to duck this punch and instead you let the blow bounce of your granite chin like an errant moth.
  • Closer investigation revealed that all of those messages were bounced spams promoting an online casino in Costa Rica.
  • I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
  • It was very difficult facing good spin bowlers on a wicket that sometimes bounced up around your shoulder and the next one's skidding straight through. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
  • The 49ers have bounced around in their training camp locations.
  • If you get a soft bounce with your 4 you're going to have a very difficult chip.
  • Yet all the guys around the bat were convinced, because of the way the ball ballooned rather than bounced up, that it had hit Lamby's boot.
  • When I kicked the football against the post, it bounced back.
  • The headpieces, which looked like mops, draped from the heads of the revellers, bounced up and down as they moved across the stage.
  • It beams a radio signal that bounces back off a metallic object. Times, Sunday Times
  • Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches. Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
  • She bounced the ball against the wall.
  • He bounced Sean on his lap several times, laughing and smiling as the baby laughed back.
  • Dave smiled as he watched her bounce happily up to the counter.
  • White skylight wells - set above exposed rafters - bounce and diffuse sunlight into the room below, reinforcing the open, airy feeling.
  • But he asked, apparently, for a helicopter to fly him in every day from wherever he was, and they bounced him.
  • The quantity can enlarge obviously, the market initiative buying offer increases obviously, impelled the stock index bounce space greatly.
  • Bloatsheet bounced through the kail-yard like a maukin, clamb over the bit wall, and off like mad; while Blister was feeling Magneezhy's pulse with one hand, and looking at his doctor's watch, which he had in the other. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • As for the bouncer, the fast bowler's ultimate weapon in many ways, you generally keep a little bit in reserve.
  • The ball bounced twice before I caught it.
  • Having said that, unless you are happy spending a day being bounced up and down in a pronouncedly uncomfortable ‘hard seat’, booking sleeper tickets in advance for about 100 yuan is a good idea.
  • Rhinos also bounced back, but only in Nepal. Times, Sunday Times
  • the ball hit the rim and bounced off
  • Ray Allen, who scored four points on 1-for-12 shooting, had a chance to send it into a second overtime but his jumper from the right side bounced off the back of the rim. Rose's 36 points lead Bulls past Celtics in overtime thriller
  • He swayed, then crashed to the stone floor and the grease keg unstuck from his foot with a 'chug' and rolled across the garage, rattling as it struck the old debris, and bounced into the greasing pit. Funeral In Berlin
  • The various lessons involve showing large and colourful letters on the screen, sometimes the float and bounce around.
  • He alighted on the word beau hurriedly, like a bird coming to ground with a little bounce. Twilight in Italy
  • Reflected daylight enters through clerestories, bounces up into the shimmering vaults and is then diffused down onto the exhibits.
  • I keep it upbeat and give people a bit of a bounce about and loosen them up without doing anything too obvious. The Sun
  • The actor is the essence of dogginess from the optimistic expectancy in his eyes to the bounce in his cavortings.
  • Trained as a doorman to national standards, he is teaching the actors restraining techniques and telling clubland anecdotes to familiarise them with a bouncer's world.
  • The ball bounced off of one of the poles and shot perfectly into the goal.
  • The amplified sound left room for improvement, which is probably natural for a setting this huge where sounds from different speakers can bounce back and create an echo effect.
  • Its main benefit is helping viewers to understand matches by showing placement, bounce, speed and swerve of the ball during play.
  • Often they bounce around on a truck seat, or maybe ride in a saddle scabbard all day strapped to an unruly mustang, acquiring numerous dings and dents.
  • A primary radar sends out signals and listens for echoes that bounce back from objects in the sky. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shankland almost scored at the wrong end when his attempted clearing header thudded against Mitchell's bar and bounced to safety.
  • The smoother the laydown, the less bounce - and the less risk you run of throwing an errant shot.
  • Bounce a graviton particle beam, off the main deflector dish, Snow, and other things.
  • She gave me her secret recipe on how to bake the perfect soda farl, so the next time I cut into one the knife won't bounce up and hit me in the face.
  • She bounced on the springy seat, playing with the wire puzzle Cinnamon had bought for her.
  • Coins are dropped into the top and bounce chaotically off clear spacers on the way down.
  • At the end was a chamber with a fixed line hanging from an aven, so Sam bounced on the rope a few times and as it was in good condition, we prusiked up.
  • Then there is the bounce, which is steep and sharp. Times, Sunday Times
  • We have been bounced into having to support something that may not even be around for 80 years.
  • Molecules are very hard spheres that bounce off each other without losing energy in encounters called elastic collisions.
  • Her old, very natural look has certainly been replaced by a supersmooth face that bounces light away like a mirror. The Sun
  • A "missed call" was logged on the display unit beside the number of the caller, and Gemma Squires, reining in Monkey Business beside Bouncer as the hunt was abandoned, was about to show Julian that his landline was showing on her handset with the call timed at just ten minutes previously. Fox Evil
  • They constantly bounce ideas off each other, work on the premise that anything is possible and are so in tune that they finish each other's sentences. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ball had completely lost its bounce.
  • They will be a different proposition when they bowl on a strip with more pace and bounce. The Sun
  • Although no one has bounced off a trampoline or been squashed by a widescreen TV at my house (yet! Times, Sunday Times
  • It's got tremendous bounce and energy and shows her passion for the movies as an art and a business.
  • It includes two products that work together to hydrate and tone your hair, imparting softness and bounce to natural body.
  • There will also be a bike park with tracks of varying difficulty, and a bungee trampoline to bounce you high into the air. Times, Sunday Times
  • This bounces out of the glass with a gentle perfume, appley fruit and floral notes. Times, Sunday Times
  • These days the Boy is using "introvert" like a curse, he's looking for a companion to bounce with and after three weeks of camp Crash needs a bit of down time. INTJ - really
  • In this hilarious parody of the contemporary nightclub scene, four bouncers portray over 30 different characters.
  • The pegs dug into the tarmac and the back end gently bounced. The Sun
  • The ball glanced on a bounce off the foot of a spectator and back down toward the fairway.
  • The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
  • I watched the fire consume every piece of my life as the cart slowly bounced away down the rough-cut road until even the smoke was gone from view.
  • You miss people looking at you like you're insane when you're glide stepping to French class with your French book on your head so you don't bounce while you march.
  • It delivered a crowd of what she called coupon addicts—customers who bought several deals from a variety of sites and would bounce from one practice to the next. Burned by Daily-Deal Craze, Small Businesses Get Savvy
  • Ticker tapes, blaring cable news network updates, and new advertising overlays all bespeak a bummed out bear market that never bounced back. Artifacts From the Future: Wall Street 2013 — Brother, Can You Spare a Yuan?
  • Yes, Ezra is a tennis ball, does bounce on, off, along, over everything.
  • The four bouncers go for a night on the town, playing more than 20 different characters, from giggly girls to drunken slobs, set against the glitzy glamour of the nightclub scene.
  • I grasp my aching head and turn around to see them laughing hysterically as the volleyball bounces away.
  • They were soon in trouble on a pitch of unpredictable bounce.
  • Chamakh's goal arrived after the French striker collected a delightful Wilshere pass, profited from a lucky bounce, weaved around the Birmingham goalkeeper Ben Foster and finished. Arsène Wenger forced to defend 'dirty' Arsenal against Birmingham
  • In addition, his unhesitating support for the players under him have seen him and his team bounce back always from setbacks, as was of course evident not so long ago in the World Cup.
  • But he has bounced back to his best in 2004, regaining his world crown and now becoming Olympic champion.
  • Composites recoil or bounce as they absorb much of the energy from a slow blow, and they don't catch fire as readily either.
  • What is particularly striking is the bounce in expectations concerning future business.
  • If he hadn't been a Bush (with people covering for him) he would have been bounced out dishonorably and we wouldn't have had him around to annoy us. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
  • I would expect the government to fight a lawsuit trying to prevent something like this, just as I would expect a leg to bounce up when its patellar reflex is hit with a tendon hammer. Matt Kane: The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable
  • Softer, padded sounds rise from thick grass, while harder, echoing clomps bounce from stone or wooden floors.
  • This excess floatation capacity may allow the insects to bounce on water surfaces, much like a rubber ball on a cement sidewalk, to avoid drowning during a downpour.
  • She bounced after him happily.
  • Inside it's split over three levels and more hectic, with weekend clubbers cramming in to bop and bounce to everything from house to hip-hop.
  • I tightened my stomach, like the bullets might bounce off.
  • A passer-by intervened and the star was hit in the face and kicked in the groin before bouncers from a club split up the fight. The Sun
  • So, a fair degree of crackle and pop bounced off the stage. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am looking for short term longs soon and then shorts on the bounce. Safehaven
  • The ball hit the post and bounced off.
  • He crumpled up the burrito wrapper and bounced it off the rim of the trash can.
  • He is predicting a bounceback in performance for next year's first quarter. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be less pace and bounce and the chance of some sidespin and reverse swing later in the game. Times, Sunday Times
  • To perform good dressage, you want the ground to give you something back, a bit of give and bounce.
  • Yessir, she got to bounce around on her big belly and do weird sit-ups and god knows what kind of grundle exercises to make her rock solid and ready to pump iron on April 2. Time enough for countin'
  • Edmonds wore not one but two bruises, both of the Caribbean sunset kind, one from a bouncer and one from a beamer, both from Patrick Patterson.
  • They were able to bounce radio waves off an aircraft out to a range of seven miles.
  • Survivors of the Brazilian nightclub fire that claimed 232 lives said that bouncers stopped people from fleeing as the building filled with toxic smoke. Times, Sunday Times
  • It, however, is paradoxical that "enjoying the rural life" has never been an indigenous idea having developed independently and self-consciously, but a bounce-back of urban cultural expansion.
  • The leaves of the giant rubber plants bounce up and down.
  • I hope they can bounce back, because this was an ego - deflating loss.
  • I bounced up over the hood and ricocheted off the windshield, skidding to a stunned halt across the blacktop pavement.
  • I felt I'd been bounced into supporting a proposal I didn't really agree with.
  • They got the chance to bounce ideas off each other and learn about juggling a business with teething tantrums and potty training. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is great if you instantly need to be on the move after a nap, and you can bounce out of your sleeping state and jump into work feeling refreshed and energised.
  • Contact Bounce. The intermittent and undesired opening of relay contacts during closure.
  • Without that bounce, AMD would likely fall prey to the summer "rejiggering" that often plagues processor-makers this time of year. AMD Gets Back-To-School Bounce
  • He bounced the ball against the wall.
  • She gave me the email address of someone at Child Advocacy International, but the message bounced.
  • First I thought that a bullet had hit me on the helmet and somehow bounced off.
  • We bounced off the jagged edge of the tarmac and hurtled through dust. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • He was working as a nightclub bouncer when he resolved to become a businessman. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ball skipped off Bonds' glove and bounced toward the fence.
  • Then he sat down, put Amanda on his knee, and bounced her up and down.
  • In most studies, encapsulation bras reduce up-and-down breast bounce best, particularly for large-breasted women, but are rated the least comfortable bra, which matters.
  • The horse has bounced back to rude health lately, winning at Ayr and Pontefract in the style of a rejuvenated character.
  • He bounced the foxhead once on his hand before tucking it safely back under his shirt. Knife of Dreams
  • Second, white all fish populations take a hit in their rapidly shrinking world during a drought, the smaller, omnivorous species may bounce back explosively afterward; the mosquito fish, for example, can breed every three months.
  • As the buckboard bounced on its way to the Ponderosa, Hoss and Joe rode close to the buckboard so all four of the Cartwrights could talk.
  • Brisbane Broncos v South Sydney, Suncorp Stadium, Sunday 3pm EST I know cats have nine lives, but someone needs to find out the bouncebackability of the humble rabbit. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • This 5-point star-shaped web covers the breast from the center out, working to reduce initial upward bounce during high impact activities.
  • It beams a radio signal that bounces back off a metallic object. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having fallen further during the decline into recession, it follows that their bounceback has been steeper. Times, Sunday Times
  • Taylor was bounced from the team for assaulting another player.
  • It has bounced back brilliantly from the global recession but must be careful to avoid being sucked into the engines of an expanding China. The New World Order
  • They adapted to the variable bounce, and then launched into the bowlers in a flurry of cuts, sweeps, drives and lofts over the infield.
  • I want to breathe in every nurdle and give thanks for every slower bouncer. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
  • Mr. Brenkus also informs us that the coefficient of "restitution," which measures bounce or impact, is a major element in the effort to increase the power of a golf swing by increasing the springiness or "trampoline" quality of the clubface (see the 543-yarder above). Unbreakable Sports Records
  • Watch the bounce of these springs and the thickness of this mattress and pad, and notice that where guests, however welcome, get a down cover of sateen, the lady of the house has silkaline. The Harvester
  • The undoubted chief, so swathed in bandoliers of ammunition that bullets fired at him would have bounced off, reached down and grabbed my hand.
  • Few of us bounce up and down in glee at the prospect of paying taxes.
  • After a wobbly period Chelsea fight back: a long punt forward nearly puts Gudjohnsen in, and then Gallas's 40-yard thumper bounces just past Kahn's post.
  • It is an exclusive club and the bouncers are on the door. Times, Sunday Times
  • And the dog skims low over the surface grabbing the ball before it bounces twice, before it travels beyond the second wave.
  • If the Cardinals don't make the playoffs or get bounced early, the trade could become a regrettable long-term misjudgment. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • It is blasted at the book and as it passes through, some of it bounces off the air pockets trapped between the pages. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes unguarded dribblers bounce the ball off their foot.
  • Everything bounces along with a youthful joy, devoid of cynical teenage angst, full of hope and dare we say it slightly soppy.
  • Saffers built up Kingsmead as their bounciest and fastest track with enough grass for all of Indias cows to graze and their batters got bounced out. The Ashes 2010: England have work to do after the euphoria | Duncan Fletcher
  • Later it became apparent what was happening, the signals were going up to the ionosphere and being bounced down to earth but they didn't know anything about that in 1898.
  • Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches. Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
  • At afternoon lunch, I sat in the common room nibbling on my potato knish, listening to Jo and Fanny, feeling as if my insides were made of India rubber and all their words bounced around without touching me. Deadly
  • Rose looked to have hit the winner when he unleashed a dipping volley which hit the underside of the bar and bounced over the line. The Sun
  • In Colorado, businessman Dan Maes -- a total unknown -- bested former Rep. Scott McInnis in the Republican primary after McInnis failed to bounce back from an admission that he had committed plagiary. A good August for Democrats in governors races but trouble looms in Midwest
  • There was a bounce to his step which I hadn't seen before.
  • Here the physical presence of the motorway is unavoidable as its superstructure looms over the building, but sail-like uplighters bounce and diffuse light up through the tall volume.
  • We could bounce ideas off each other and share problems.
  • I served against the backboard and backhanded the ball that bounced back.
  • Experts last night said the bounce was being driven by growth in the automotive and manufacturing sectors. The Sun
  • The bouncer at the door obviously had no idea of how important our entourage was.
  • We wanted to bounce some ideas off of you about the wedding ceremony.
  • I bathed and changed and decided to start the evening with the bounce of Sidney Bechet.
  • The bank insists it's doing a service by covering checks and purchases that would otherwise bounce.
  • The regular pitches have cracked and produced uneven bounce.
  • The Chris-Craft bounced along nicely: an expensive wheel-steered vessel, trim and fast.
  • She bounced up and down in Allie's lap, keeping good time. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE AND MARGIE
  • Except now it's bounced back with the biggest monthly rise in 25 years. The Sun
  • Even when partitions are built to the ceiling, sound can still travel up to the deck and bounce down.
  • Mabouya bounced back from that counter-attack and in the latter stages pulverized their opponents' defense.
  • And the eel nigiri were wan and flabby: no bounce in the rice, no life in the snake flesh. Times, Sunday Times
  • Secondly, the beer came in plastic pots, so I was gone if I got into a fight with the bouncers.
  • He bounced the puck off the boards to Savard, who took it down the left side, faked a shot from the circle to draw in defenseman Jaroslav Spacek and then centered it to Axelsson for the goal. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Buffalo vs. Boston
  • Dubliners Dead Cat Bounce are a case in point: a first-class comedy band that have it in them to be Ireland's even scruffier answer to Flight Of The Conchords. This week's new comedy
  • It bounced and splintered into pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bounce back: Percentage of holes on which golfer is over par on one hole and under par on the next. Nationwide Tour statistics
  • Some tour pros ‘milk’ the golf club by regripping it, others bounce the club-head off the ground or waggle it above the ball.
  • Still entered in all the big autumn juvenile races, he can bounce back to form. Times, Sunday Times

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