Words similar to pounced

Example sentences for: pounced

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

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.
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.
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.
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.