REBOUND in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for REBOUND, such as:

1. His shot on goal rebounded off the post.
2. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.
3. This slight, as it were, rebounded upon him.
4. Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
5. He also has the ability to recover quickly in scramble situations and control rebounds.

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 Meanings and Examples of REBOUND
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rebound
 v.  return to a former condition
Classic Sentence:
1  The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead and three wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM...
2  Around this knoll the balls rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
3  Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated the barricade and wounded several men.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
4  This slight, as it were, rebounded upon him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
5  The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
6  The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7  He was yet speaking, when a crashing sound was heard, and a cannon-ball entered the thicket, striking the body of a sapling, and rebounding to the earth, its force being much expended by previous resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
9  Javert ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT...
Example Sentence:
1  Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.
2  His shot on goal rebounded off the post.
3  He also has the ability to recover quickly in scramble situations and control rebounds.
4  Sometimes it's better to let sales fall than to cheapen your image so much that the halo is lost when the market rebounds.
5  A maverick in war and politics, Israel's Ariel Sharon reshaped the Middle East in a career marked by adventurism and disgrace, dramatic reversals and stunning rebounds.