bobbed
Example Sentences
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Off a Mediterranean beach, countless shoes bobbed in the blue waters, abandoned by migrants who had swum to this slice of Spanish territory along the Strait of Gibraltar, just off the coast of Morocco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
And by the 1920s, women with bobbed hair came to represent female independence and rebellion.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Pink poodles with long black eyelashes danced in a can-can line, a quartet of googly-eyed cacti bobbed along to the music and a trio of small white dogs galloped on the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Most of us stood very still, as though afraid that if if we bobbed too much, we’d shake the music from our heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
And Mr. Potter Palmer had unfortunately situated his store just steps from the Chicago River, where all the city’s dirt, death, and decay bobbed along on the current.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
