Example sentences for: bobbing

How can you use “bobbing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Washington Week in Review devoted the show to Campaigngate, with five talking heads bobbing in unison for a half hour on the deplorable state of affairs.

  • The water is bobbing with yachts, speedboats, tugs, and fishing craft, while a constant stream of jets descends onto the waterside runways of one of the world’s busiest airports.

  • Lawyers' stand-bys such as aforesaid, forthwith, hereafter, hereby, herein, hereinafter , and even the ubiquitous said are condemned by the author as “tricky, ducking, bobbing words,’ “flabby words,’ whose only claim to precision is their traditional use, not worth saving.

  • This has something to do with the palm trees, relentless sunshine, yachts bobbing in the bay, and fishermen laying out their nets on the waterfront, to be sure, but it’s also a product of the way locals talk, walk, dress, and sip wine and coffee at outdoor cafés.

  • The river traffic is a motley flotilla of modern container ships and ocean-going junks — their sails the color of grime — of packed ferries and convoys of barges, warships, rusty coasters, and bobbing sampans.


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