Sentence examples for bungee from inspiring English sources

Solar Schools works differently in every school – they really make the project their own – from organising school discos and cake sales to a sponsored bungee jump and seven hour table tennis marathons.

Deborah was talking about the kind of charity that shakes a tin outside a supermarket, or does a bungee jump, or sets up a direct debit.

A study by the Social Issues Research Centre described 18- to 25-year-olds as the "bungee brood" who had failed to sever links to their parental purse strings.

For sure, this was partly a "bungee effect" after a particularly deep downturn, but it is no one-year wonder.

So a promising new "stress-transfer" theory, which sets out to explain how an earthquake in one place affects the probability of subsequent earthquakes nearby, is causing a bit of a rumble.One of the theory's leading proponents, Ross Stein of the US Geological Survey, likes to explain its underlying principles with a string of house bricks interconnected by elastic "bungee" cords.

And Robert Hooke's near namesake, Patrick Hook, the boss of Auxetix, a small firm based in south-west England, hopes to exploit this weirdness to make everything from body armour to dental floss.To understand how an auxetic material works, imagine a rubber bungee cord with a piece of fishing line wrapped around its length in an open spiral.

For example, the soccer official who denied South Africa the chance to host the World Cup in 2006 visits the country and is sent bungee-jumping with only knotted bedsheets to break his fall.

But governments allow their citizens the freedom to do many potentially self-destructive things: to go bungee-jumping, to ride motorcycles, to own guns, to drink alcohol and to smoke cigarettes.

Also tottering is Frontier, a specialist in exotic risks, which, according to industry lore, insured a shop selling bungee-jumping equipment after watching the owner test it.

Lastminute.com, a British e-commerce firm that plunged in 2001, finds itself, bungee-like, back in the FTSE 250 index of leading British companies.It is not just the Internet-shopping boom that has delivered an early Christmas gift to investors.

So it is clear that the survival of the banks depends heavily on sorting out the fate of the conglomerates and the more than 100 other companies placed either under the shelter of the "work-out" programmes or under court protection from creditors.Bungee economicsAs for the economy, on the surface, South Korea looks as though it is enjoying a bungee-bounce recovery from the crisis of 1997.