Sentence examples for was pounced upon from inspiring English sources

But the government stumbled, and every stumble was pounced upon.

It was pounced upon at the private viewing.

And their own hesitation was pounced upon by former Rangers striker Lafferty once again.

The money went into the city's general fund, where it was pounced upon by a variety of other interests.

During the Gilded Age, anything railway-related was pounced upon by investors, capital was freely available, and 30,000 miles of new track were laid, usually with telegraph wires running alongside.

Interestingly, some of the greatest persecutors of homosexuality in America were Freudian analysts, whose declaration that queerness was a sickness that could poison society was pounced upon by right-wing bigots as much-needed intellectual ballast.

So he expected Artemis, the master-thief, to be pounced upon.

The "dry crudités" were pounced upon, and clear favorites emerged immediately.

While the very rarest and finest is pounced upon, some very good paintings easily get ignored.

Paintings of great charm, if not of stellar importance, were pounced upon.

Such resources have been pounced upon already by engineers hoping to build speech-recognition and synthetic-voice systems.