NOUN
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a sudden jarring impact
all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers
the door closed with a jolt
VERB
- move up and down repeatedly
How To Use jounce In A Sentence
- Fancy and Kit jounced along redbrick streets past low, colorful buildings. Slice Of Cherry
- They hop on anyway, sidesaddle, legs dangling, with baskets, with boxes, with a small kid or whatever, and jounce around town. 4 Campoalegre « Unknowing
- The boat jounced once off the river bottom, rocking its passengers.
- The rough back roads and trails they took made the litter jounce and sway nauseatingly. THE CURSE OF CHALION
- Spring suspension had not yet arrived, and the carriage body jounced against a hard leather strap that kept it from crashing through the wheels. The King's Best Highway
- Her basket jounced at her side as she climbed, its woven rim digging into her ribs, but she couldn't think of a better way to position it and trekked onward with a sigh, resigned.
- While the bass and the drums undeniably take control of your hips, it's more of a slow and purposeful rock that you'd utilize in an after-hours lounge-type scape, rather than a fast and furious jounce that would be appropriate in a dance club. Alyssa Miele: Neon Indian, Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, the Dom and Prefuse 73 Rock Governor's Island
- Cyril stooped and picked up a handful of small pebbles and jounced them in his hand to shake away the loose dust, then the resumed their leisurely walk along the track.
- They jounced over a rise, and a loud crack sounded beneath them. Crimson Wind
- But it is in going down hill, and leaping from a "jounce" that the skier is at his best. Healthful Sports for Boys