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Sentence Examples Suddenly, without any warning, the cat pounced on me and dug its claws into the skin of my arm. He was pounced upon when I first laid out the pictures, but nobody gives a reason for liking it. A nearby wolf pounced on the bird first and the rodent scuttled to freedom. Before he could focus on the living room crammed with people, he was pounced on by a short, chubby, buxom woman who hugged him fiercely. Just as the crowd were being lulled into a stupor, the Scottish team pounced in the 23rd minute. She assured him, keeping an eagle eye on his tensed body so that if he pounced she'd be ready. You can see how the slightest impropriety would be pounced on as grounds for derision and exclusion. Two minutes later, John Mike Dooley pounced for the first of his two goals when he finished to the net from a set up by Colin Harris. Muscles flexing, waiting, twitching, he has pounced on a starling, dispatched it with a single bite, and carried the limp lifeless thing away. Aristotle's critics have pounced upon this sentence as an example of pompous obscurantism. I was asleep in my own bed, minding my own freaking business when something very large and a little bit heavier than I pounced on me! The man pounced at Kora, the attacker continuing to growl angry curses and words too low for anyone to hear. Whitney yowled and pounced gleefully into the mess, her tail twitching excitedly. The visitors lost the ball when trying to clear it though, and Brady pounced on the mistake to pop over a fine point. Thornton pounced on a goalkeeping error to put hosts York ahead in the first half. But traffic wardens pounced when she parked slightly outside the parking bay. When I arrived home my sister practically pounced on me immediately for details. Surviving examples of drawings that have been pounced are indeed disfigured by cloudy smears of charcoal dust. And it was the same with everyone after that, and when they finally showed up around four, the girls nearly pounced on them. Moving with precise coordination, the Arbiters pounced upon their prey, assailing him with stinging strikes of their daggers. Show More Sentences As we left the courthouse, Hubby and Wifey and their kids pounced on us, hugging us and crying. We were escorted into this dressing room, where all these people pounced on us with cases of make-up and racks of clothing. Mary Lynn butted up against his side, her blue eyes wide, her smile shy, as if she expected to be pounced on and handcuffed. The warden pounced after firemen pushed the car to the side of a busy dual carriageway to allow traffic to flow freely. The cat pounced on it and took the meat to the back of the bar, under a pool table with a scarred, green felt surface. Aloisi, who had replaced midfielder Cesar Palacios eight minutes earlier, pounced just before time to earn Osasuna a deserved draw. I was quite happy with that, so I couldn't believe it when the dog pounced on my dog. And that's what the opponents of embryonic stem cell research have pounced upon. In October 2002 Evans pounced on the youngster as he went to the shops to buy a pint of milk. The mice scattered as he approached and pounced, and before long he was in his element. During the same period wardens have pounced on more than 1,000 motorists breaking parking or driving laws. Like a living animal, the wood pounced on its prey, wrapping itself around the loathsome wizard. Just as the crowd were being lulled into a stupor, Scotland pounced in the 23rd minute. One of the monkeys pounced on a woman holding a child, biting her arm before leaping back into the tree. The other smuggler tried to run, but the beast pounced on him and raised him into the air. The fox gave a yip as Ferric entered and pounced on the boy, easily knocking him over. When they were close enough to the unsuspecting woman, they pounced, knocking her to the ground. When the opportunity arose in the 27th minute Andre Emmanuel pounced on a loose ball and netted the first goal. When we walked out of the test room, he practically pounced on us. No sooner had Crist finished his interview with blitzer than both the Rubio campaign and Democrats pounced. Show More Sentences Indeed, the lion pounced and the two scuffled, which ended with Hope Butler running out the door in a hurry, dashing as far she could across the concrete jungle. She pounced on the man's back, ripping and clawing away at him. For a second the dog hesitated, then as if compelled by a command, Rocky pounced on Kevin trailing his rough tongue all over his master's face in long slurpy licks. The Shaheen campaign pounced, spending part of the next day hitting the hustings in Sullivan County. I pounced, grabbed, and came up with three rolls of a really quite pleasant dark rose paper, slightly marbled but with no actual decorative design of the nasty kind. Dogs and foxes always go for the neck, but this time whatever attacked the sheep pounced on it from behind, pinning it down and mauling both sides of the back. The noise caused Ally to look up and when she saw all the crisps, chocolate, marshmallows, sherbet and other such things she pounced on Luke to get them. The home side's three tries came first from Tuilevu's mistake as he misfielded Boeta Wessels' grubber and watched as Wylie Human kicked through and pounced on the loose ball. A traffic cop pounced on them and, screaming abuses, began slapping one of the men, who could not even shield himself for fear that the cart would go out of control. Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced quickly Sunday, denouncing the economic blockade of the Donbas. The Cobbydale side took the late after 17 minutes when matt Bowness pounced on a fumble from the full back and John Williams added the conversion. He almost screamed when a rat suddenly pounced out of it, squeaking madly. The creature pounced again, but he avoided it by rolling to one side. She pounced on top of him and they both tumbled to the ground. He pounced on the loose ball and sent a blistering shot to the net. I wanted to jump up and hug Jimmy tightly, but he already pounced on me. Suddenly her pounced on her and they both went under and came up laughing. All I knew was that one moment Mary was sitting next to me, and the next she had pounced on me and was holding me down so that I couldn't move while she kissed me. We made the mistake of not leaving ourselves a quick exit and her father pounced on the fact that we were essentially cornered to tell us the entire history of his backyard. 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. Show More Sentences Our cat shot out from the kitchen, pounced on the mouse, and ran through the cat door with it in her mouth. She pounced on the young man, because she loved him and wanted him for herself. Tom Walkinshaw pounced and bought Johnny Herbert's contract, moving him into Ligier and then Benetton. Then another benchwarmer, Danny Ward, pounced three minutes into added time to seal it. After he exited the house they pounced on him, finding a white powder substance in his pocket they beleive to be cocaine. Beith were ahead in nine minutes when Paul Frize pounced on an error by Lok keeper Johnny Murdoch to rifle home. Happy slap attackers pounced on a student and left her dazed in a city centre assault. The child fell 14ft from an observation deck into the enclosure where 11 beasts, called painted dogs, pounced. He pounced to score from Jordan Sinnott's 48th-minute corner to earn Frankie Bunn's side a 1-0 win over Barnsley at the John Smith's Stadium. He spilled the ball and Glennon and Keith Scally pounced, forcing Corley to overcarry once he had retrieved the ball. Darren Tilley and David Phelps wore masks when they pounced on Christopher Mackie and told him to hand over his cash box. On the way back Boyles led him down a lampless lane, and sure enough, a pair of dacoits pounced on them. Police believe that his attacker followed him from the burger bar and pounced in Millennium Walk, off White Street. Glasgow City full-back Fernon pounced when Grant's miskick landed at her feet and she whipped the ball over Irish keeper Emma Higgins into the net. Southport absorbed pressure before extending their lead with a quarter of an hour to go as Baker whipped in a lowball from a corner which Tony Gray pounced on and scored. The only goal came when keeper Kevin Sawyer's long clearance was misjudged by Dave Theobald and Berwick pounced to slide the ball past advancing keeper Enol Ordenez. Molon Baraka pounced on the terrified woman and tried to rape her. They pounced on schools, crowded taxi ranks, night clubs, soccer games and supermarket stoeps, to express words that would soon be banned by the apartheid regime. Ciaran Martyn pounced on a loose ball following a goalmouth scamble to hook it to the net before Nash sent the crowd wild with delight 30 seconds later. The policeman thought it best to surprise the man, since he might be armed, so he disguised himself as a swagman and pounced as the man returned from his bridge-painting job. Show More Sentences Craig Fawcett and Nev Morrison were next over the try-line for Doncaster, and a succession of up-and-unders yielded yet more misery as Hughes pounced for his second. The lad was pounced upon and raised up on his friends' shoulders, and away went the boat club boys around the town, Blumpo in advance of them blowing a big fish-horn. Mandeep Singh Sandhu and Barjinder Sangha were part of a gang who pounced as Lieutenant General Kuldip Singh Brar was walking London streets with his wife last September. Examples from Classical Literature The comely Anna pounced upon her friend, shook her, chided and beseeched her. The newspapers pounced on them with joy, as cats pounce and purr on catnip. The mouse is in danger of being pounced upon by a hawk, and the hare or rabbit by the snowy owl, or else the great horned owl. But when Croly approached the desk and reported forty-five the spotter pounced on him. Harper pounced on the squashy thing on the floor, feverishly pushed back the projecting insides, closely examined it. In a trice the Phoenix had pounced on the leprechaun and pinned him to the ground. After that he flung everything in a lidless wooden case out upon the floor and pounced upon a little box that fell among the rest. He pounced down, and caught hold of lox by the hair and carried him a mile up into the sky, and then let go. The mouse was alive, and towie let it run a little way, and then pounced down upon it, then gave it a pat to make it run again. They were pounced upon while they slept heavily after drinking all that palm wine you've allowed Makola to give them. It struck the cross-bar, bounced high in the air and fell back into the playing field where a Harvard back pounced upon it. She fled like a roe deer, and pounced upon the baby just in time to checkmate Mrs. Bury, who was at her heels. Nab would have pounced on the point, and by this time we might have been nabbed ourselves. Four-year-old Mackenna Frew was scarred for life after she was pounced on by an Airedale terrier as she walked home from her nursery class. Phil pounced impertinently on the card that fell from it, read the name and the poetical quotation written on the back. As if that were not enough, the converging players pounced upon them. On these, magnified by their convex lenses of water, we pounced. The mother of the flower girl pounced on her and carried her upstairs. Their poor mother pounced upon them with a yowl, but it was too late. Keith Pollock pounced on the 16-year-old as she walked home in the early hours. Show More Sentences And as soon as it had strung a long-distance system of wires, the Postmaster General pounced down upon it and took it away. The Elfin suddenness with which she pounced upon me with this question, and a searching look, quite disconcerted me for a moment. Then the eagle pounced upon the bird, and the moment she seized him in her talons she tore the ring from his neck before the man in bird's shape had time to prevent her. And as he had no longer to study France, he pounced down upon Pisa. While we were taken up with this, and were expecting each moment to be our last, Scylla pounced down suddenly upon us and snatched up my six best men. The Wingmakers equalised in the 69th-minute through a Tom Field penalty, but Belle became the Old Gold hero when he pounced to net the winner seven minutes from time. They pounced upon the banker and almost lifted him into the car. He lived, however, but a short time, and after his death his family pounced upon his money, brought a lawsuit against his widow, and pushed things very hard. At last he came upon what he sought, a large scraper, and he pounced on it with a cry of triumph.I moved a little to see it better, and my foot knocked against the scraper. Find more words! 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