trampoline

Example Sentences

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Known as “the trampoline of death” and said to be teeming with ghosts, it snakes along hairpin-thin mountain ridges that give way to 100-foot drops on one side and steep mudslide-prone cliffs on the other.

From New York Times

Instead of a tomb, nostalgia became a trampoline — something you could jump onto with both feet, rebounding into an open future.

From Washington Post

On Tuesday, when a child began using the baseboard of the sculpture as a trampoline, Nurse said it did not bother him: He was relieved, he said, at the sculpture’s durability.

From New York Times

I'll watch her play basketball, do trampoline and gymnastics, and encourage her.

From Salon

The family spends hours outside in the late afternoon and evening, Freddy watching the children jump on the trampoline.

From Seattle Times