Bobbing is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bobbing meaning
present participle and gerund of bob
Using Bobbing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of bob
- In the example corpus, bobbing often appears in combinations such as: bobbing in, bobbing for, bobbing and.
Context around Bobbing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bobbing
- In this selection, "bobbing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, head, apple, captioned, balls, side and briskly stand out and add context to how "bobbing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include archery apple bobbing and cookery and azores just bobbing along. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bobbing" sits close to words such as abating, abductors and abstaining, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bobbing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I sing back, bobbing along beside him. (7 words)
Floating in the harbor are burned boats bobbing in the sea. (11 words)
About a month later, it was spotted near the Azores, just bobbing along. (13 words)
LaCour puts this sad fact to good use in her vivid book about a latex orb that insinuates itself into a little girl’s world only to depart, bobbing briskly into the sky. (33 words)
She has slept on mattress-free iron bed frames with cockroaches a-plenty, and seen corpses bobbing – a fact of life – down the frequently flooded 3,900 mile long Yangtze River. (31 words)
After many years of commitment from me, now when I call her she trots back to me happily with her head bobbing side to side just like Wolfy's did. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
The strip, captioned 'Bobbing for Poodles,' is a riff on a human Halloween tradition: bobbing for apples.
About a month later, it was spotted near the Azores, just bobbing along.
A sanitation worker reportedly first noticed the black, plastic, 55-gallon drum bobbing in the lagoon at around 3pm on Sunday.
BOBBING about in a loch is wonderfully relaxing, unless you’re in the middle of Loch Ness.
Cars are zooming down tight roads that cut up next to long drop-offs into the ocean, with the vehicles bobbing and weaving around others.
Finally, in bed, grateful to wear my big striped warm socks with the bobbing balls hanging on them, I swooned.
Floating in the harbor are burned boats bobbing in the sea.
Our official accommodation was on the 4th or 5th floor, and my wife saw someone bobbing about in a makeshift boat.
After many years of commitment from me, now when I call her she trots back to me happily with her head bobbing side to side just like Wolfy's did.
In addition, there will be archery, apple bobbing, and cookery, as well as apple tasting, and live entertainment from local folk musicians and morris dancer.
LaCour puts this sad fact to good use in her vivid book about a latex orb that insinuates itself into a little girl’s world only to depart, bobbing briskly into the sky.
As a child, her brothers used to climb on the bobbing pump jacks and ride them like carnival attractions.
Fashionable, sassy and witty, they follow a direct line from the Go-Go’s and L7 and just generally kick ass at the head-bobbing party jams.
He began gazing at the river below, as if the answer to his problem might come bobbing along in those dark, choppy waters.
In that speed-down, slow-down test, the car was doing less bucking and bobbing, with far less detectable queasiness in back when the driver suddenly lifted the accelerator.
I sing back, bobbing along beside him.
Prospectors, medical teams, food and machinery found themselves bobbing over the tundra in his trusty machine, which landed on floats in summer, skis in the winter.
She has slept on mattress-free iron bed frames with cockroaches a-plenty, and seen corpses bobbing – a fact of life – down the frequently flooded 3,900 mile long Yangtze River.
Some of the classics — haunted hayrides, kids screaming and licking their fingers, and any lingering apple-bobbing holdovers — are simply out of the question.
The chart below takes all the short-run bobbing and weaving out of the GDP data by showing the rolling 20-year average of annual growth.
Common combinations with bobbing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bobbing in 6×
- bobbing for 5×
- bobbing and 5×
- bobbing up 5×
- bobbing along 4×
- boats bobbing 4×
- bobbing about 3×
- the bobbing 3×
- bobbing on 3×
- and bobbing 3×