Sentence examples for bobber from inspiring English sources
noun
A buoyant device (frequently made of cork) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the line with the hook (and bait or lure) above the bottom.
Hanging from a nearby tree is a bobber connected to a fishing line.This rustic scene comes courtesy of Indianapolis's "combined sewer overflow" (or CSO) system, which was designed nearly a century ago to carry both sewage and storm water through one set of pipes.
Bait may also be fished by suspending it at a chosen depth under a buoyant object attached to the line that is made of cork or plastic, called a float in Britain and a bobber in the United States.
"Something thrown on the waters, a floater, and a bobber — but thrown by whom?
Finally, he selected a turquoise-beaded bobber from California, flicked it in the air like afishing pole, and said, "Lots of people, they'll believe anything".
Fishing costumes involved headgear: Army helmets, football helmets with face guards or antlers or buffalo horns, octopus-tentacle hats, pirate bandannas, Viking helmets with horns and fur, devil hats with upward-pointing horns, a hat like a giant red-and-white fishing bobber, a Burger King crown.
Still, we were glad to be reunited with the industrious hum of our own companion, for who is a rider without his chopper or his hog, her bobber or basket case?
He's not a dancer or a vamper or even a head-bobber, and he doesn't tell stories between songs.
Many among the crowd of nearly 100,000 had been disappointed before, when horses like Real Quiet, beaten in a head-bobber in 1998, and Smarty Jones failed to add the Belmont to the first two legs of the Crown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
Dad, recognizing that hooking a panfish on a worm-and-bobber rig might be a challenge for his young son, stealthily secures a fish on his own line, then sends his son to the car to retrieve a snack.
Not that it was ever really hot stuff, most of the nation's wintry successes coming via the ice age of daredevil bobbers, sequinned skaters or the inimitable dancing feet of T and D. So it is heartening to learn that there is a teenage skier whose burgeoning talent is warming the cockles for the future.
No, we're playing a megagame called Watch the Skies!, and if the real Holy Father hasn't made it to the Moon, there's still a man dressed as him standing on a balcony in a town hall in north London surrounded by folks in deely bobbers, and after eight hours of this, I'm not sure I have the mental energy to properly tell the difference.
