jounce

Example Sentences

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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

‘He does like her better—she don’t jounce his fat so. He always rides her ’round Boston.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes