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Bounced


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bounce

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
  • (2) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
  • (3) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
  • (4) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
  • (5) Salmond also made a tacit admission that the "Brown bounce" – the prime minister's success in rebuilding voters' confidence during the financial crisis – had been a factor.
  • (6) And then the ball is in Caballero's hands.At the other end, Courtois beats away an awkward, bouncing drive from long range.
  • (7) Besides, his tax cuts are already factored in with voters.” The Tories had no bounce when Cameron first sprung these tax cuts.
  • (8) Radio 3's commitment to bring the BBC Proms to a wider audience has been rewarded as the network bounces back above the 2 million mark."
  • (9) The Labour leader Ed Miliband has maintained his post-conference speech bounce in the polls, with an 11-point lead.
  • (10) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (11) Although Obama's campaign team played down the chances of Obama securing a poll bounce from the Democratic convention, beginning Tuesday, it is privately hoping he can open up a significant lead after months in which the two have been tied in the polls.
  • (12) Southampton's manager Mauricio Pochettino praised his side's ability to bounce back from adversity.
  • (13) Too many people had been asked if they would be interested in joining for it to remain secret for long Plans for the Hatton Garden job were bouncing around for 18 months.
  • (14) She served four double-faults at around 30mph and could hardly bounce the ball.
  • (15) But international analysts have called the recovery a dead cat bounce – and the leadership’s reputation with its own people for sound management, along with the promise for international investors that the government was on track for overdue economic reforms, has suffered a serious blow.
  • (16) However, analysts said that with construction also weak, there was little sign that the recession-hit UK is bouncing back strongly.
  • (17) She bounced back into the charts in 1989 with Another Place and Time, overseen by the British producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the single This Time I Know It's for Real was a major international success.
  • (18) Charity leaders accept that circumstances aren’t changing anytime soon, so they’re bouncing back; building great teams that support great services.
  • (19) Of the three relegated clubs, Norwich have adjusted best to the Championship and, Alex Neil having replaced Neil Adams as manager in January, are challenging for a bounce-back promotion.
  • (20) His right-foot effort was miscued but the ball bounced conveniently for Evans, running in at the far post, to beat Mannone from close range.

Bouncer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
  • (n.) A boaster; a bully.
  • (n.) A bold lie; also, a liar.
  • (n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Imran Yousuf, 24, a bouncer and former marine who served in Afghanistan, saw people pouring into the back hallway.
  • (2) Prasad, meanwhile, inserts a bouncer, and the over closes with the pleasing reappearance of the verbal.
  • (3) "S exual harassment is endemic," says Sophie Tolley, who until last month worked at student club nights around Edinburgh as a bouncer.
  • (4) A young man holds his hands aloft in victory as he is frog-marched out the door by bouncers.
  • (5) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
  • (6) Then, following more mouth, another short one crumps the handle - they run two - before torso is offered to bouncer, it takes back and earns four.
  • (7) I would like to say thank you very much to the bouncers outside Turtle Bay,” she said.
  • (8) Next to Laura’s elegant effort, he looks like a steroidal bouncer who’d kick you off a glacier.
  • (9) A door guarded by bald, unsmiling men, the bouncers who stand forever as the bored sentinels of indifferent celebrity.
  • (10) Both teams left the pitch with a pile of grievances and the lingering image is of the referee, Jon Moss, being escorted off the pitch at the final whistle by a man wearing the look of a nightclub bouncer.
  • (11) The former bouncer Levi Bellfield has lost a bid to challenge his conviction for the kidnap and murder of Milly Dowler .
  • (12) Maybe a sling or a bouncer if you're feeling flush – and, of course, bottles and sterilisers if you're bottle feeding.
  • (13) There are a few things about his death that everyone agrees on: he was in a hilltop park eating a burrito and tortilla chips, wearing the Taser he carried for his job as a bouncer at a nightclub, when someone called 911 on him a little after 7pm on the evening of 21 March 2014.
  • (14) Bennett’s route into teaching encompassed six years running nightclubs in Soho, including a popular club on Wardour Street – sparking headlines that the government’s new behaviour tsar was a former bouncer.
  • (15) Molina hits a bouncer, Pedroia wisely just gets the out at first.
  • (16) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
  • (17) The 78-year-old, a former bouncer who reportedly had three girlfriends before becoming a priest, described the family as “a factory of hope”, each one with “divine citizenship”.
  • (18) He used Unity Force as on-stage bouncers, renaming them Security of the First World, or S1Ws.
  • (19) Puig caps an 0-4 night with a bouncer to Kozma at shortstop who fires to second base, to take Gordon off the base paths.
  • (20) One of the earliest posts told the story of a young Asian woman who had run away from home only to find herself pursued by a posse of ex-rugby league players and bouncers hired by her father.

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