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
- Once the vehicles have been jounced or rebounded, manual adjustments of the height of the vehicle take place.
- The iron rimmed wheels of the stagecoach threw a plume of fine dust high up in the air, and the boxy, badly sprung vehicle jounced and bounced on the rutted, hard packed earth that made up the last mile of the road.
- 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 rough back roads and trails they took made the litter jounce and sway nauseatingly. THE CURSE OF CHALION
- The boat jounced once off the river bottom, rocking its passengers.
- This bridge swings and jounces at a disastrous height above the torrent below.
- When the occupants "jounced," the spring of this board naturally helped the bobs to keep going for some distance after it would ordinarily have come to a stand-still. The Adventures of Bobby Orde
- As we jounced by roadsides abloom with red hibiscus, through half-lidded eyes I soaked up exotic scenery.
- With each step her blond head jounced slightly.
- Then, stooping, I stepped in between her and the man in the jump seat, feeling the little jounce and sag of the carriage body under my weight. Time and Again