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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:

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.
In the issue of June 10, Skeat pounced:
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?
Clinton pounced on DeLay's remarks.
Television networks and pundits pounced on the story anyway.