pouncing

Definition of pouncingnext
present participle of pounce

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pouncing
Verb
  • The strategy marks a shift toward attacking cartels’ financial systems as law enforcement pressure mounts on traditional drug routes.
    Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Dan Ndoye is capable of playing in a central attacking role and Morgan Gibbs-White has looked handy playing in a more advanced role.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • This was an indulgent gift after a busy day romping through the busy streets of London.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The Buckeyes are romping through everyone, and that counts for something.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Just a few weeks earlier, Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, had been cavorting with his four children at their Arlington, Texas, home, meeting his 8-year-old daughter for lunch at school and giddily planning the arrival of their fifth child.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Contreras tagged Randy Rodriguez’s hanging slider in the bottom of the ninth, cavorting around the bases while his teammates spilled out of the home dugout.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Used primarily as an office building, its ornate design, carvings and sculptures — including a ground floor fountain with frolicking bronze youths — hadn’t invited much public attention or appreciation.
    Lina Lecaro, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Birds in the steppe fly by, frolicking, and disappear somewhere in the sky, in distant silence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Pouncing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pouncing. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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