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How to use the word bounces in a Sentence?

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If I’m able to, I will go out and shoot free throws before the game to figure out if the rim is loose or tight, and how the ball bounces off the rim.

Bryce Weiler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It kind of seems the bounces don’t go your way when you’re down that quick.

Blake Lizotte

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Providing locally relevant, timeless and authoritative information is paramount. This is our responsibility, and we are proud of doing the best that Google can, we will continue our efforts to make sure the world bounces back.

Hema Budaraju

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When things starting well, you go on a run, right? You get momentum and the ball finds the cup and when it’s not going well it bounces the wrong way, i feel like I’m on the right side of some momentum right now and I just have to keep it going.

Jordan Spieth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The guy who wins golf tournaments is usually the guy who’s playing best that week and is out there doing everything a little better than everyone else, that’s what it takes to win golf tournaments. Four days, 72 holes, you’re going to get good bounces, you’re going to get bad bounces.

Patrick Reed

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That was our mentality, to try to get inside of them, they like to pack it in, especially in the D-zone. They’re a really good defensive team, so if we’re able to get to the inside, get pucks in there and just kind of whack at him, get a few lucky bounces, it’ll be huge for this series.

Alex Tuch

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I felt really good, just some weird plays and unfortunate bounces.

Frederik Andersen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We knew it was going to be a challenge, i thought we set the tempo at the start of the game and overall played pretty good. A few bounces went their way and they capitalized.

Josh Anderson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Flames’s hockey. Bounces go each way throughout a game, we’ve got to clean up a few areas and I think we’ve got to be around their net a little bit more to get those bounces.

Sean Monahan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We got looks, we spent a lot of time in their zone, i thought we did a pretty good job executing what we wanted to do, we just didn’t get the bounces. We continued to jump on loose pucks and hem them in. ... We weren’t just working the perimeter on the power play. We were getting rubber to the net.

Chris Kreider

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Investors looking at the (airlines) group, are technicians, traders, people buying distress for fairly quick bounces, long-term investors are saying 'Do I want to sit with airline stocks, that may take four to five years for sustained moves upward, or put my money elsewhere,'.

Chuck Carlson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we work hard and do the right things, well earn our bounces.

Sidney Crosby

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He and I talk constantly. Weekends, mornings, late at night. We talk constantly. He bounces ideas off of me. I’m very proud of the fact that he respects my opinion, but again, he is the president of the United States, he’s got his own way of doing business. But again, I see a man who can change his mind when the facts and data and staff... bring him to a different conclusion.

Staff John Kelly

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We had the big fall in dollar/yen because investors were selling into bounces all the time regardless of what was happening in stocks, no matter what the BOJ was saying or doing.

Kenneth Broux

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a very difficult period for the market with oil prices rising and risk sentiment healing, but inflation expectations and bond yields not responding, we had the big fall in dollar/yen because investors were selling into bounces all the time regardless of what was happening in stocks, no matter what the BOJ was saying or doing.

Kenneth Broux

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've had a decidedly more bullish mood these last few days, with a bit of encouragement coming from oil prices, a bit of encouragement from China's trade data, and the yen is obviously playing a factor, these are all very encouraging signs that at the very minimum indicate that selling pressure has eased, and which hopefully mark some degree of more sustainable optimism. But that's hard to say for certain given how many people got caught on the wrong side of false dawns and dead cat bounces last quarter.

Stefan Worrall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Past experience has shown us that a country that is serious about tourism and has built an infrastructure always bounces back, look at Egypt. It has been up and down for the last 10 years. Every time it comes back stronger than before.

Taleb Rifai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When we have a huge down week like we've had and certainly on Friday, which was a big down day, you tend to see a few technical bounces.

Randy Frederick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's just a matter of people doing a little bit of bargain hunting, when we have a huge down week like we've had and certainly on Friday, which was a big down day, you tend to see a few technical bounces.

Randy Frederick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think there was a specific piece of news driving the market today. We got very oversold, when everybody gets bearish quickly, you tend to get these bounces.

Brian Fenske

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Every time that we discuss these sorts of things, we're not talking about the family who's out there trying to make it -- they don't know if they're going to make it to Friday before a check bounces because they don't have enough money in their checking account.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Obviously they got some bounces last game and some open looks,( but) I feel pretty confident in this building, i wasn't too worried about it. I was just looking forward to getting out there again.

Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The echo of happiness bounces against a wall. (L'écho du bonheur - S'entend contre un mur.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
8 years ago

European stocks are driven by the forex market, big time, the drop in the euro has played a major role in the stock rally in Europe in the past few months even before quantitative easing was launched, and now, with short positions on the euro reaching extreme levels in the short term, European stocks look vulnerable to a pull-back if the currency bounces.

Nicolas Cheron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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