Pounce is an English word with synonyms like leap or fall. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pounce meaning
- A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
Using Pounce
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface. | Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- Useful related words include: leap, go down, fall, descend.
- In the example corpus, pounce often appears in combinations such as: to pounce, pounce on, pounce and.
Context around Pounce
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pounce
- In this selection, "pounce" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rangers, winning, third and bug stand out and add context to how "pounce" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include blood and pounce and chance to pounce. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pounce" sits close to words such as asbury, azam and bally, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pounce
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Blue moved as Nightingale sent Statlander flying with a pounce. (10 words)
Archer hit Allin with the pounce which knocked him to the outside. (12 words)
Rangers pounce on a slack pass through Lawrence and he finds Cantwell. (12 words)
Lupita Nyong’o's unforgettable delivery and performance make Red an effective villain while also achieving sympathy from the audience as it becomes clear she is a vengeful doppelgänger who’d spent years underground, waiting to pounce. (37 words)
Chesterfield retook the lead on 67 minutes after Freckleton got to the byline and crossed low, Grigg hit the post, but Banks was there to pounce for his fourth goal in three games. (33 words)
It was a real battle in the early moments of the second half, with the Inverness side probing for a way back and Nairn standing strong, waiting for their chance to pounce. (32 words)
Did they rest on the fact that they already had Darius Slay roaming their secondary or did they pounce on an opportunity to strengthen the overall group? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Molinari led throughout much of the day, in fact, until double-bogeys on No. 12 and No. 15 opened a small window for Tiger to pounce — and pounce he did.
Archer hit Allin with the pounce which knocked him to the outside.
As it turned out, they illegally sealed off their breakdown, allowing the Free Staters to pounce.
As pressure piled and she missed her first, Svitolina was right there to pounce, winning 92% of the points on Swiatek’s second serve in that set.
Beside me, Ducky sat patiently ready to pounce at the right moment as he waited for a vehicle, believed to be involved in drug supplying, to pass by.
Chesterfield retook the lead on 67 minutes after Freckleton got to the byline and crossed low, Grigg hit the post, but Banks was there to pounce for his fourth goal in three games.
Did they rest on the fact that they already had Darius Slay roaming their secondary or did they pounce on an opportunity to strengthen the overall group?
In the series, she could turn all the dolls made by Mika Kayama into horrific creatures that could pounce on people.
It was a real battle in the early moments of the second half, with the Inverness side probing for a way back and Nairn standing strong, waiting for their chance to pounce.
Lots of goodies as I said in my hotlist too to pounce on w cash that at least gives you around 5% these days while we wait.
Lupita Nyong’o's unforgettable delivery and performance make Red an effective villain while also achieving sympathy from the audience as it becomes clear she is a vengeful doppelgänger who’d spent years underground, waiting to pounce.
Made a key interception after Saka squared the ball back across goal with Martinez out trying to pounce on the ball.
Once a strongman like Mr. Putin is seen to be weak and ineffective others smell the blood and pounce.
Rangers pounce on a slack pass through Lawrence and he finds Cantwell.
The maidens bring us home, and like progressive metro filly who can pounce third-up in weaker company.
There are plenty of physical moves that it can make use of, such as Pounce (Bug-type), U-Turn (Bug-type), and Crunch (Dark-type).
The tie remained poised at 0-0 at half-time, but a momentary lapse in concentration allowed the visitors to pounce with a well-taken goal to take the lead.
A great late burst from Garnacho but his low cross is turned away superbly by Caicedo with Zirkzee looking to pounce.
Blue moved as Nightingale sent Statlander flying with a pounce.
Connors hit a Pounce on Taichi at 11:30 and they were both down.
Common combinations with pounce
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to pounce 64×
- pounce on 52×
- pounce and 6×
- and pounce 6×
- pounce with 4×
- will pounce 4×
- pounce at 3×
- could pounce 3×
- can pounce 3×
- would pounce 3×