Sentence examples for a pounce of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Some aspects of the novel are worth a pounce, especially the stark vignettes of daily life in near or total darkness.

But a fortnight on the bald sidewalks of Manhattan -- At the end of the third week, the fever takes you with the pounce of a jaguar A fortnight with no well or pasture, all the birds of the air Fall suddenly dead below the high ashes of the terraces.

One admires the lithe stance of the panther about to pounce; of the cobra about to strike; of the crab about to scuttle.

Pounce, of course, is the hero cat who stole the moment in Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell) and Chapman's first scene together.

When the curtain comes up on Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dunphy — named only "He" and "She" in the script — they are lolling on a double bed with a painted-velvet picture of a pouncing Bengal tiger above them.

Bopara pounces of a short ball, but can't flail the ball past the leg-side sweepers and picks up just a single.

On the other hand, some kidnappers don't use charm or a ploy; they pounce out of the blue and take the victim by force.

Last he watched a worker ant race out of an anthill, pounce on a morsel to take home to his queen, and then head off in the wrong direction with it.

Sixty years ago, when natural-history television was in its infancy, it was rumoured that one of the most successful makers of African wildlife programmes had offered £500 – an almost unbelievable sum in those days – to any camera-person who could get a clear shot of a lion pouncing on a wildebeest.