The phrase "a pounce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden leap or spring, often in the context of animals, particularly cats, when they are about to catch something.
Example: "The cat made a quick pounce on the unsuspecting mouse."
Alternatives: "a leap" or "a spring".
Some aspects of the novel are worth a pounce, especially the stark vignettes of daily life in near or total darkness.
Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip, wrote of Mr. François: "He seems to capture an idea with a pounce.
There will have to be a process, not a pounce: the building up of diplomatic pressure, reforming sanctions, demanding new UN inspections, the credible threat of military action if he does not comply.
She walked to the back door, opened it and called her sons; opened it and opened her palm, let a pounce of clean breeze take the wasps and make them gone.
But after trying out a variety of alternative strategies, within two minutes it has adopted an entirely new gait – something akin to a pounce – allowing it to proceed towards a target despite being damaged.
"Time and time again, Lord, I've been going through the motions/It's a means to an end but the ends don't seem to meet," Mr. Simpson sings resignedly at the top of "Living the Dream". Even his quick yelp while singing "going" feels doomed, like a pounce on the gas pedal that still doesn't start the car.
"There's a pouncing game," said Linda Corcoran, a zoo spokeswoman.
An image of a pouncing dog conveys visual content and carries emotional charge to a human viewer.
His personal collection of stuffed animals includes a pouncing tiger and a baby English bulldog.
Two minutes later Archer tipped Okazaki's cross away from a pouncing Vardy.
From risking it all with a pouncing lion to breaking off a piece of a priceless Italian statue, some will risk it all just for a stunning snap.
