bounding

Example Sentences

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Normally those events are covered by the Lord Lieutenant, but he came bounding out larger than life.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

I stopped worrying about everything I normally worry about and instead tried to imagine that I was a young boy, bounding through the forests of New England, where I grew up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

His passion for her grows to such a pitch that he starts bounding up stairs instead of crawling over them like a mollycoddled toddler.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024

Dad came bounding up the stairs two at a time, as excited as any time I had ever seen him, with the possible exception of when the West Virginia coaches came to see Jim.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam