Sentence examples for bobbing from inspiring English sources

A gate at the bottom of the garden leads on to a creamy ribbon of sand and views of bobbing fishing boats.

The standard operating model used to involve overpacking the boats, leaving them bobbing on the water with no crew in the hope the Italians would pick them up.

One scene stood out during the hours spent hemmed up against the walls of Holy Cross church on Crumlin Road, petrol bombs exploding at our feet, heads constantly bobbing and weaving to avoid the bricks and stones.

Libya's version of the Mary Celeste sits bobbing up and down tied to a stanchion in Tripoli harbour.

Large and chic, with views of boats bobbing around in the marina.

Largely that's as a result of vocalist Harry Burgess, whose vocal lines veer from languid tenor croon to something resembling a wasp bobbing about on a string, though he's matched step-for-step by skittering, spindly guitar lines and a restless rhythm section.

Olón is a charming fishing village – all bobbing boats and fish restaurants.

But the tide of politics, as well as the rules, does indeed seem to be against them.Preparing for governmentGiven all that, the party's showing in opinion polls they are bobbing along at between 17% and 21%—and recent results in local contests look respectable.

Then he was borne out of the church, his white skull-cap bobbing through the crowd, his hands raised in blessing, his feet seeming to hover over, rather than touch, the ground, until he reached the shelter of his car and the safety of the apostolic delegation.

There have been several attempts to do this in the past, from trainers that absorb power from the pounding of a foot on a pavement to backpacks that generate it from the bobbing motion of the load while the wearer walks.

Two years later, with her characteristic head-bobbing gait and eyes rolling back with the effort, she set the pace in the world championship 10,000 metres in Sevilla, Spain.