bounding
Example Sentences
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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
I stopped worrying about everything I normally worry about and instead tried to imagine that I was a young boy, bounding through the forests of New England, where I grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Several weeks later a large brown bear was captured on video running through the centre of the nearby town of Liptovsky Mikolas in broad daylight, bounding past cars and lunging at people on the pavement.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025
Spiderman famously does whatever a spider can—including spinning webs and bounding though the air.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2024
“How are you all doing?” the nurse said, bounding in and exhibiting her ivories again.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
