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Example sentences for: pounced

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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.
Reporters initially preserved an air of dignity by couching their questions in terms of perjury, but they soon tossed aside that fig leaf and pounced on the subject everyone wanted to know about: Did Clinton and Lewinsky have sex?
Television networks and pundits pounced on the story anyway.
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.
Clinton pounced on DeLay's remarks.