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Example sentences for: pounced

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

Television networks and pundits pounced on the story anyway.
But all the while the shadow of doom was creeping nearer and nearer, till came a day when it pulled off its whiskers and pounced.
Lefty, an "animal lover," reclines on a ghastly blue-green lounge chair in a red sweat suit, watching videotapes of gazelles being pounced on and devoured by lions.
In the issue of June 10, Skeat pounced:
Germans who wanted to translate their word interessanterweise into English tried “interestingly,” which in those days sounded horrible to British ears; but the Americans at once pounced on it.