The drills have several aspects, going beyond merely pouncing on the ball.

George's father so often came pouncing out of his study if any sudden noise was made when he was working.

But at the Met, such pouncing is rare.

Instead of pouncing, Ms. Flowers allowed weeks and even months to go by as she changed agents.

The boy held the dog by its leash, preventing the angry beast from pouncing upon the Rabbit.

Then by pouncing through the pricked cartoon, the design is transferred to the plastered surface.

Something fierce and pouncing arose in Whelye's face.

"Without pouncing on her in earnest," he amended.

Now would come the pouncing.

Soon he had a hundred tiny cats pouncing on him like rats, and then a thousand attacking like nickelpedes.

But it was dawning even on Hamnpork that pouncing on the white rat would be unthinkable.

The Kitka answered her by pouncing forward and patting at her arm excitedly.

The membrane is then rubbed with a round, flat object ("pouncing") to ensure that the ink would adhere well.

Seles broke Martinez's serve in the seventh game of the first set by pouncing at midcourt to rip a forehand across the court.

Grasshoppers and flying termites are caught either by pouncing or are caught in mid-air.

A scene on Planet Chains appeared, with the dragon pouncing on a Feline and killing him.

Upon these Mek Nimmur had a knack of pouncing unexpectedly, when he was supposed to be a hundred miles in an opposite direction.

Jamming these on her nose, she strolled about the circle, at last pouncing on the lost hair-dip for which she had returned.

A win in the manner of Agape would lead to the pouncing of the Citizens, and disqualification would put her into their hands.

Knives went clattering as The Shadow sprawled, but other attackers were pouncing on their prey, slugging hard with revolvers.

Morton caught Edward's involuntary eye-movements, but instead of pouncing, instead of switching on the bluster, he changed gear.

By the time the rest of the team joined him, he was the only one not wearing a helmet and injured his jaw amid all the celebratory pouncing.

It took 27 years of unwanted pouncing, yanking and smooching before Bob Packwood was bounced out of his job in Congress.

She attacks Thor, pouncing on him but is stunned with a blast of lightning and then destroyed when Thor smashes her head.

Pouncing has been a common technique for centuries, used to create copies of portraits and other works that would be finished as oil paintings, engravings, and so on.

The other three pounced upon the man at the same time.

And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

They will pounce on me in a second if I go too far.

They pounced on him and he had hard work to keep them off.

It was as though he had pounced on the man.

To pounce on them so quickly like this, she had to have known they were coming.

He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it.

"Those men might pounce on us if we try to go."

The line went dead before I could pounce all over that one.

He saw that they were getting ready to pounce on him.

I'm not going to pounce on you, by the way.

She turned around and I nearly pounced on her right there.

For a moment, he seemed about to pounce upon the guide.

Jordan pounced on him at every turn in Game 5.

The sense that someone was at his back, watching, waiting to pounce.

He was pounced on by a group of boys almost immediately.

It was here that they had pounced upon their brother last night.

Not when she was likely to pounce at a vital moment.

There's nothing like a new face to get the press, and the Democrats, to pounce.

But he's wrong when he says critics are ready to pounce on him.

For all he knew the men might be waiting somewhere to pounce on him.

She swung her head around, ready to pounce on anything.

Anything we care to toss out will be pounced on.

Still, he agreed with me that the right moment to fire would be just before they pounced.

Not that she was ready to pounce on him without warning.