'pounce' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used as an intransitive verb meaning to suddenly leap or jump on something. For example, "The lion pounced on the gazelle and killed it."
When he walked, his heels hardly touched the ground and he seemed to walk on springs, as if he was going to pounce on somebody.
In this eerie surrealist painting, a murderer nonchalantly haunts the scene of his crime, unaware that it is surrounded by detectives who wait to pounce on the perpetrator.
He finds space on the right and his cross takes a deflection, requiring a timely intervention from Wasilewski with red shirts waiting to pounce.
He attempts to roll the ball into the path of Aaron Lennon, who was ready to pounce.
After the break the Govan men could not fashion anything like the two chances missed by Dean Shiels and Jon Daly in the first half, and when Simonsen's hesitancy allowed Ciftci to pounce it was all over.
And he did pounce on people quite often.
Rolland, a strong climber, might fancy it - otherwise, the likes of Valverde and Talansky are waiting to pounce.
Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/AFP/Getty Updated at 9.16pm BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.08pm BST21:08 6 min: Mustafi crosses the ball into the Algeria penalty area from the right flank, prompting Rais M'Bolhi to dart off his line and pounce on the ball.
With control of both houses of Congress at stake in November's mid-term elections, Democrats have been quick to pounce.
Thus their non-EU Britain, for instance, is 91% New Zealand and 9% Argentina (an amalgam Eurosceptics will no doubt pounce on).
Tax policemen lurk outside shops, restaurants and hairdressers, ready to pounce on customers lacking their legally required receipts.
