adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
back
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This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire.
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United came bouncing back with an equaliser at the start of the second half.
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Outside I could hear rain falling upon the fire-escape and bouncing back against the window.
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In the past couple of years, however, it has come bouncing back .
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They keep being written off but they keep bouncing back with this the eighth time they have topped the table this season.
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Whispered epics in the bouncing back of war chariots, chanted louder as the warriors attack - entirely in profile, of course.
bomb
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We asked who led the Lancasters into action when they dropped their bouncing bombs .
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The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge, bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs.
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But it is up front where the experts ply their trade and both Ian Wright and Les Ferdinand are bouncing with confidence.
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Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December, the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves.
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Female speaker I like the bouncing castle because you can go high.
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He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels, bouncing all the way down.
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The bouncing baby grandson - George's first - will do much to ease his heartache.
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They could hear the rain pattering in the grass and bouncing off the roof of the jeep.
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With Cranston bouncing along the Nightingale Gallery, the whole house seemed to sing with noise.