Sentence examples for bouncing a basketball from inspiring English sources

Upstairs, one of the children was bouncing a basketball.

"From the time he could walk, he was bouncing a basketball," recalled his mother, Chana.

Every child played there, one generation after another, bouncing a basketball on an undersize court that had an inconvenient pillar in the middle.

I HEARD you played in the N.B.A.," said the fifth grader who was bouncing a basketball between his legs, a yarmulke sliding down his head.

"Traveling" (2002), a beautifully atmospheric grisaille, nearly ten feet tall, was made by repeatedly bouncing a basketball soiled with "Harlem earth" onto paper.

The North counsellors examined no transcripts and asked few questions about goals, and, when a special-ed student wandered in bouncing a basketball, an irritated counsellor shooed him out and shut the classroom door.

"If I announced I was the new Michael Jordan, the press would have said that's cool 'cause we allowed to bounce a basketball," he said recently at Greater New Hope Baptist Church in Washington.

My main memories of him at work are (even more) silly, though: finding a giant cardboard box and him being unable to resist getting inside it, trying to bounce a basketball 5 floors down the stairwell and catch it, endless puns and jokes at departmental coffee mornings.

One man bounced a basketball.

DiCicco taught Bud to bounce a basketball into a (regulation-height) hoop with his nose.

She bounced a basketball in the driveway with her 3-year-old daughter as Irvine police moved methodically through her house, snapping photos and jotting notes.