bounding
Example Sentences
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She worried this new song—a three-minute romp set to a bounding rhythm in the fashion of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel”—was overdoing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Mr. Hernández has a febrile energy that finds him bounding around the stage with a convincingly youthful, manic intensity, as if new love has pushed his adrenaline into overdrive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Photos shared by the department show a silvery gray fox bounding majestically across a white snowy plain beneath towering, sunlit alpine peaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
The bounding wolf flew past her and knocked her flat on her back, with a whoosh of hot wolf breath and dank fur smell.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
