Example sentences for: bounce

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

  • There are nationalities and ethnic groups so confident, so satisfied with themselves that ethnic epithets either bounce off them like pebbles off an elephant or are adopted as amusing or even ornamental.

  • The papers generally agree on what was most noteworthy about the day's events in London: that the outpouring of English public emotion hadn't been matched since the end of World War II, that, with its engaged participation in the ceremonies, the royal family seemed to bounce back into public favor, and that Diana's brother's remarks were probably among the most frank ever made inside Westminster Abbey.

  • While classical performers tended to interpret their eighth notes strictly and evenly, jazz musicians provided a little bounce in theirs, a slightly uneven distribution of rhythm achieved by placing them slightly behind the beat, and/or by making the first eighth note slightly longer than the second.

  • Real recovery depends on regional political stability, the continued strength of the export-absorbing American economy, and Japan's ability to bounce back from its slump.

  • George Stephanopoulos says the president's phenomenal bounce in the opinion polls reminds him of the surge in the polls Clinton enjoyed after the first of the Gennifer Flowers eruptions in 1992.


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