jounce
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Joe DeAngelo was thick-muscled and dough-faced, with an odd jounce to his gait.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2019
The up-tempo jounce of “Monk’s Dream” and “Criss Cross” has been turned into surface-skimming, 12-tone dashes, with debts to Cage and Stockhausen.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2018
If you’re going to run Graham & Co. one day, Graham tells Pierrepont, “you’ve got to add dynamite and ginger and jounce to your equipment.”
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014
Every jounce caused pain to shoot through his body.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2013
As a fat man, I walked with the foot soldiers so as not to jounce the gestation.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
A chunk of flaming timber jounced down a sharply angled slope, smacked onto a two-lane road and hurtled into a thicket below, igniting brush along the way.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
Then one of the shooters got back in the driver’s seat, and the truck jounced along the edge of sorghum fields populated with kangaroos.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
The bed jounced when Mannie sat down on it where the medic had been sitting.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2014
Lovers were courting on the white wooden benches, waiters jounced past us carrying trays holding glasses of orange juice and apple tea.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
Heat shimmers rose off the street as the hathay rattled and jounced along on its iron-rimmed wheels, giving a dreamlike quality to their surroundings.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
We have a few seconds of excruciating video from the jouncing camera strapped to a police officer’s uniform.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021
“Cut Bank” has the bumpy momentum of a vehicle jouncing along on a rutted country road.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
At the beginning of the novel, he is in a bus jouncing through Costa Rica, the rickety vehicle full of vacationers who are pallid and fanny-packed and “pre-dead”—that is, retired.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 21, 2015
And no one buys cheap dumbwatches merely for their functionality anymore, either—aside from a few specific cases, like a runner who buys a Timex digital because he doesn’t want a phone jouncing in his pocket.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
He hears jouncing axles, grumbling tailpipes, rain on the roof of the radio truck.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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