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Sentence Examples As the support and every other onlooker held their breath, it was Wilkie who blootered it clear before the Dutchmen could pounce. With a blood-curdling roar, the Manticore spread its wings and leapt at the Cleric, attempting to floor him with a pounce. Seeing this, the three sisters made a pounce at the chairs also, just in case the king thought that they were better off outside. He hunkered down in a patch of magnolias like a tomcat preparing to pounce. However, some shopkeepers pounce on me and demand everything but a strip-search. The time between the pounce and the jump seemed an eternity, although it was only seconds. I watched for the animal but it still surprised me with a pounce onto the rock opposite the pond from me. Really and truly it was never going to end in this contest against a home side, who have won their last number of games on the pounce. Living in that vile woman's grasp, it was like being watched by a vigilant, maddened cat, always with the claws out, ready to pounce on us. A grove of crotons became a magical jungle where snakes and other exotic creatures lurked, waiting to pounce. Wolf spiders, like the zebra spider, do not spin webs, rather, they pounce on their prey. She sank onto the couch, not quite relaxing, almost like a cat crouching before the pounce. Some may have considered her beautiful but Hazel had always thought she looked like an overgrown alley cat, ready to pounce. Grinning, he twirled his hand around the kitten as the tiny animal chased him, attempting to pounce. He gave a little pounce up at her, and stood with his front paws through the fence. Now he is waiting in the wings again, ready to pounce and deliver for Kildare, if he is called to do so. The Venezuelans should be here any minute and this lobby full of reporters is keyed up and ready to pounce. As they follow the coast, kestrels often hover above marshes and grasslands, waiting to pounce on rodents, small birds, and insects. The demon, full of the momentum of the pounce, tumbled easily through after her. I can't imagine how they dared break the rules, with all those regulatory whackers waiting to pounce. Show More Sentences Cowboy traders and dodgy doorstep salesmen are prowling around, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting or the plain gullible. Alan Quinlan overran the ball but Dowling was there to pounce on the loose ball and claim the try. A surveillance unit of detectives follow her every move and are ready to pounce when the alarm sounds. That is when they pounce, like a band of hyenas after the lions have left the kill. It is because they are a tough, determined unit able to pounce on any opportunity and are also merciless towards their own players. The blond-haired, almost godlike figure, meanwhile, stood motionless, impassive and unwinded, like a great tiger poised to pounce. One can almost imagine Davis, under the window, telephoto lens extended, chops licked, ready for the fashion pounce. He knows where to be, has the ability to deflect a shot coming in and has the quick reflexes to pounce on rebounds. Make no mistake, there are many who would love to see O'Leary fail and are waiting in the wings to pounce once things start to go wrong. Every time the butterfly would fly higher the kitten would pounce at the air and end up falling to the ground. Their paws are poised, ready to pounce on ideas and nuggets of information. She's always on the edge of her chair, ready to pounce at the slightest suggestion of a whisper. Food is inspected and health and safety executives lurk at every corner, ready to pounce if there is any chance that you are enjoying yourself. Pedants pounce on such tell-tale signs that what purports to be an image of Shakespeare is really an idealised image of the biographer himself. They were managers I played with who could pounce on a player's weaknesses in a measured, forthright fashion. Critics will pounce on their every mistake as evidence that paying teachers for performance is a bad idea. On a third occasion he was hovering behind him as the ball flew into the area, ready to pounce on any mistake. When ready to pounce the wasp moves swiftly when its prey is usually in a stationary position. He rose up on one knee, then crouched there, body tight, as if tensing for the pounce. Hilary stopped and slitted her eyes at me like a cat ready to pounce on its prey. Show More Sentences Any lapses in concentration and the Rats will pounce in what should be a close game. Hooker Matt Diskin carried the ball to the line before stabbing a grubber through for McGuire to pounce and score. Opposition members are quick to pounce on us and predict the end of supply management. The house seemed like a caged tiger ready to pounce on its prey. You sleep around, break hearts, and then pounce on your next victim. But he reacted quickly to pounce on the rebound and fire home. Not only is the whole world watching our every move but we have an active, independent, free press just waiting to pounce on any mistake this administration makes as well. With an amazing pounce, we were flying through the air again. As actual practice can demonstrate, if a pricked design is pounced from its verso, the pounce marks register more distinctly, than if pounced from the recto. Other highlights include an uncle's funeral, during which a few aunts pounce upon the fishnet-clad mistress of the newly deceased. She's not that hungry, but she will pounce upon whatever emerges, just for the fun of chasing it all over the house. Of course the warning police are quick to pounce upon what we put into our mouths. He may need to move his body quickly to knock down an off-target pitch, chase a catchable foul ball, or pounce on a bunt. However, the Oxygen sisters deceitfully keep an eye on these atoms, and are ready to pounce, oxidizing Silver and Copper and rusting Iron. The holistic virus lurks behind our neurones, ready to pounce on our synapses to open the floodgates of our neurotransmitters. Mr Buffett has sat out markets he judged unpropitious before, only to pounce when they turned. At the current share price, in an industry where consolidation is becoming a more pressing imperative, don't be surprised to see a predator pounce. She had scoured the listings and tried to pounce on each new one, Ms. Egerton said. Known to leap six times their body length, leopards are powerful as their short legs allow them to pounce on their prey. Described as a cat-like canine, foxes have eyes similar to a cat's and like to pounce on their prey. Show More Sentences The violent thieves could have been still lurking in the area, ready to pounce on the next traveler. Ever irreverent, cartoonists underline the faults of public figures and are always ready to pounce on the slightest misstep. If these animals have free range around the feeder, avoid giving them places to hide from which they can pounce on birds. There is a fundamental reality that mistakes and errors get made and when they do, we need to pounce on them. The 1978 game against France was a good example of my ability to pounce on a half chance. The critics were quick to pounce on us and relentlessly scrutinized both our initial decision and our ongoing progress. Avoid games that teach your kitten to pounce on moving fingers, hands, feet or legs. Look into the eyes of our little hunter as she prepares to pounce on her prey. When he walked, his heels hardly touched the ground and he seemed to walk on springs, as if he was going to pounce on somebody. He finds space on the right and his cross takes a deflection, requiring a timely intervention from Wasilewski with red shirts waiting to pounce. He attempts to roll the ball into the path of Aaron Lennon, who was ready to pounce. Thanks to their keen sense of hearing, foxes can pounce with precision, knowing exactly where dinner is. Passing manoeuvres are the surprising ones as the engine feels as though it's always on-boost and ready to pounce. It's a powerful analogy: the wolf waiting to pounce, controlled only by another hit. In this case, it may pounce in the middle of a spoken line, when we freeze like a trapped rabbit and our worst nightmare becomes reality. Of course, there's no denying the fact that infirmity coupled with sickness will always stalk the retirees and seize every opportunity to pounce on us. The dog, teeth still bared, was suspended in an unmoving pounce. Be careful, or your spirits will be bogged down with dissipation, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that Day will pounce on you like a trap. All around the greedy jackjaws, blackbirds, thrushes and magpies eye the ripening fruit and at the exact moment that the fruit ripens they pounce leaving nothing but pips. In the event, in the long cat and mouse game that Stalin played with him, the cat did not pounce. Show More Sentences It decides to pounce on a prey, to hide in the grass, to take off and fly, so the organism does behave as a very unitary entity. The pair are drawn into China's struggle, as nationalists, communists and warlords tear each other to pieces and Japan lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce. We are all so comfortable in our own niche in the surfing world that we stay locked in a fight stance ready to pounce at the first threat to our way. Nothing like a few vases of flowers about the place to cheer a dull day, even if we do have to pounce on every falling petal before it hits the floor. Before long, though, the cat did pounce on friends, and family, and colleagues. The SPLC points to Tom DeWeese as one of the first pounce on the U.N. plan. Gareth Kelly was ready to pounce in case Heraghty spilled the ball. Because of the generally open country in which it lives, it is essentially an ambush hunter, lying in wait, ready to pounce on small mammals or birds. We will never have democracy: people will pounce on each other. Nevertheless, we all have a natural tendency to depart from the issue being discussed and pounce on the weak and sore spots in others' personalities. The Japanese Yen appears to be on the receiving end of large buying session as traders pounce into the Asian currency to hedge against less certain investments like the EUR, GBP and even the U. S. Dollar. In this eerie surrealist painting, a murderer nonchalantly haunts the scene of his crime, unaware that it is surrounded by detectives who wait to pounce on the perpetrator. Then I actually see a beast, ready to pounce on Europe. However, for Nicolas Perrot and Marie-Madeleine, this presented a serious problem: Nicolas, battered by debt, was at the mercy of his creditors, just waiting to pounce on the lot. Do not pounce on the come, do not throw head, go easy. Supt Wilson said Gyasi then hit the Constable with a cement block and tried to pounce on him to fight him, resulting in the armed Constable firing at Gyasi's right leg in self defense. The Canadian Luge Association also welcomed its first-ever corporate partner, Fast Track Capital, two years ago, which has helped ready them to pounce on the podium. It is that result which will force the hosts to pounce on any chances that come their way against France, if they are to have any realistic chances of getting out of the group. If you have a hoard of critics waiting to pounce on your every mistake, you have a much greater chance of feeling a bit more pain even if you are not several steps to mortality. They see the UK like that explorer in the jungle who, when the band of explorers froze at the sight of a tiger ready to pounce on them, slowly took off his jungle boots and slipped on a pair of running shoes. Show More Sentences And for that, boycott-divestment supporters have been quick to pounce. In contrast to other tiger beetles, which chase down their prey over relatively long distance, Six-spotted Tiger Beetle wait within their patch of sunlight, until a prey item comes close enough for them to pounce. Having learned that Major-General Stanley diverted them with a lie, the pirates assault his house and pounce upon the Major-General and his daughters. Buyers pounce on art — when there is something to pounce on. Montbazon kicked on, and when former Flat racer Vulcanite dropped away, the likes of Darlan, Prospect Wells and Trifolium looked ready to pounce. Texas Gold should be able to sit just behind Paddywhack and Tomthevic and pounce in the final furlong to follow up the Newbury win last time out. The Asian mountain-dwelling Pallas cat is as wild as a tiger and ready to pounce. And the critics, or at least one critic, was quick to pounce. In one demonstration, he let a 230-pound man pounce on him. After the break the Govan men could not fashion anything like the two chances missed by Dean Shiels and Jon Daly in the first half, and when Simonsen's hesitancy allowed Ciftci to pounce it was all over. Primitive people do not pounce upon their visitors. He staggered to his feet after being knocked down, only for Haye to immediately pounce right back on him, hitting him with another flurry of punches. The situation has prompted residents to consider killing stray dogs for fear that they might pounce on cadaver bags and expose unidentified bodies, sources said. When Darragh, who has Friedreich's Ataxia, got off in Talbot Street in Dublin to switch buses, he was targeted by lowlifes who saw his vulnerability as a chance to pounce. They hide in the shadows and at the 'brring-brring' of a phone or chitter-chatter, pounce on the offending viewer scaring the bejabbers out of them. Tiny microglia puff up and pounce on invaders that enter the brain, using chemical warfare to kill infiltrators, while devouring dead and dying cells. She finally finds her legs and she runs to the door that leads to her backyard, expecting to find comfort in her cocker spaniel, Pounce. Lannie sat on the floor, grinning happily, as a puppy cocker spaniel, Pounce, jumped in glee around her. This is a story about two bandicoots, Bounce and Pounce, who want to find their father. Examples from Classical Literature The newspapers pounced on them with joy, as cats pounce and purr on catnip. Tensed like a hunting cat about to pounce, the rod still seemed to have a life of its own. Then I had to pounce on him, and tell him it was Latin, as he might know by the diphthong. This kissing bug was just ready to pounce, on you, and poison you, when I grabbed it and killed it. A very good pounce may be prepared by mixing equal parts, by measure, of pumice powder and French chalk. There was an ink-horn, a box of pounce, some quills, and a sheaf of paper there. The cat was about to pounce down on the eggs when the Pope laid hold of it. Passepartout was ready to pounce upon the American, who was staring insolently at his opponent. It is only when he descends from the clouds to pounce upon carrion that he betrays his low propensities, and reveals his caitiff character. He paused, ready to pounce upon any man who might have the temerity to reply. Your cat will pounce on the Fish for Cat, a little toy stuffed with organic catnip and jingling bells. I started as though I had seen a tabby pounce down from the rigging! The clerk dusted the document with pounce, and handed it to the Duke. Then he thought it would be an easy thing to pounce upon Daikoku. They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily. You are waiting in your lairs, ready to pounce on the unwary hunter. Gaby appears to be caught between the two men who are always looking for a reason to pounce at each other, but she has a secret agenda. But Jewell is waiting in the long grass, ready to pounce quickly and bag his man if Everton continue to dawdle. Playful felines can bat, kick and pounce after Thing 1 and Thing 2 toys or model a Grinch Headpiece. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year. Show More Sentences Don't let him lie around, licensed and legal, to pounce upon our youth. When cats are preparing to pounce they creep over the ground very slowly. Find more words! 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