Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pounced
IPA transcription: [p'aʊnst]
Usage examples
  • She pounced on it.
  • The prosecutor positively pounced on this piece of evidence.
  • She acknowledged it with a bow and a smile which Mrs. Perkins pounced on and analyzed audibly.
  • Mitya pounced on her, snatched her up in his arms, and carried the precious burden through the curtains.
  • He pounced across the sidewalk, and soon the twain were struggling in the snowdrift, pummeling one another with might and main.
  • Alethia pounced on it, in the expectation of finding a cultured literary endorsement of the censure which these rough farming men had expressed in their homely, honest way.
  • Mary Louise went to her room and was promptly pounced upon by Dorothy Knerr and Sue Finley, who roomed just across the hall from her and were delighted to find she was to become a regular boarder.
  • Conseil pounced on his rifle and aimed at a savage swinging a sling just ten meters away from him. I tried to stop him, but his shot went off and shattered a bracelet of amulets dangling from the islander's arm.
  • Meanwhile, the Major, roaming round the hall like an imprisoned cyclone, had caught sight of and joyfully pounced on the telephone apparatus, and lost no time in ringing up the hunt secretary and announcing his resignation of the Mastership.