bobbing

Example Sentences

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Office workers being tossed around their workplaces; cars bobbing in the surf like ice cubes in a punchbowl; skyscrapers waving like reeds in the wind.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s something bobbing about on the water at the end of it.

From Literature

“Yes,” he said, and ran ahead of me onto the sand, ready to chase the seabirds and watch the currachs bobbing beyond the surf.

From Literature

My legs felt like fat logs floating on water, just bobbing around without any control.

From Literature

An AI-generated video shows a crowd of young - mostly black - men, wearing balaclavas and padded jackets, slipping down a water slide into a dirty swimming pool with litter bobbing on the surface.

From BBC