bob

Example Sentences

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Instead, most of them simply bob their heads up and down in unified appreciation of the music.

From BBC

But Mr. Trump’s past as a self-styled player kept bobbing to the surface of the MAGA-red sea.

From New York Times

The seaweed tends to bob around in island-like masses that can stretch for miles.

From Washington Post

Their engines would flood or choke out on stray plastic bags, leaving rider and surfer bobbing perilously in the path of oncoming waves.

From BBC

“Welcome to dead fish central,” said Graeme McCrabb, a local resident, as he navigated his speedboat through fields of rotting fish carcasses bobbing in the acid-green water of the river that runs through his town.

From New York Times