pounce upon
Example Sentences
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You can pounce upon that stuff, screenshot it, and declare it the thematic takeaway if you want.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2015
The most subordinate females would “at times pounce upon a dominant male and snatch a tamarind pod from his hand, cuffing him over the ear in the process,” she added.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2014
Some people may pounce upon such an assertion as anachronistic, but you convincingly argue that my novels are forerunners of a 20th-century academic discipline.
From Scientific American • Apr. 25, 2013
And there’s no more shamelessly attention-getting, bleeding news story for reporters to pounce upon than one involving a missing child.
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2012
It cuffed them all into silence, and they watched the griffin pounce upon the butterfly and miss.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
