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Example sentences for "rebound"

Lexicographically close words:
rebinding; rebirth; rebirths; reborn; reboso; rebounded; rebounding; rebounds; rebs; rebuff
  1. After that week of despair, the rebound was so violent that it carried his hopes at once as far as the utmost mark they had ever reached.

  2. It was held that they were entitled to do this without infringing any right of the plaintiff in their copyright book; but it was also held that it was not fair trading to sell the rebound books without sufficient notice that they were rebound.

  3. They bought second-hand school books published by the plaintiff, and rebound them so as to have the exact appearance of the plaintiff's books when new.

  4. His movements had the elasticity of the panther; blows seemed to rebound from his body without doing him harm.

  5. According to this, a state of spasm of the arterioles and capillaries causes the chill, while the fever is merely the rebound of functions held in abeyance during the chill.

  6. A sharp rebound of temperature quickly following crisis may be followed by speedy death.

  7. Then came the rebound in a form not expected.

  8. Henry had not counted on the rebound from that blow.

  9. It is simply the rectifying rebound of the distorted arrangements of nature.

  10. Hell is the experience produced by the rebound of violated law.

  11. He did, in truth, jump like a wild cat, and rebound as if he were equipped with elastic paws!

  12. And she felt more and more keenly the rebound of his emotions.

  13. Not willingly did Victor Emmanuel incur that charge, in which the rebound from love to hate was so clearly heard; not willingly did he give up Maurienne, cradle of his race, Hautecombe, grave of his fathers.

  14. With the quick rebound of virile characters he recovered his balance and understood his part.

  15. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.

  16. Defn: A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.

  17. Defn: To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground.

  18. Defn: A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

  19. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.

  20. Mend books which have been rebound once but which it would not pay to rebind again.

  21. Books that have been rebound may go directly to the shelves.

  22. The work was seldom used, yet it was necessary to have the set on the shelves; the Everyman's edition answered every purpose, and will undoubtedly last as long as the rebound set would have done.

  23. If the book has never been rebound and in all probability must go to the bindery in a few months' time, send to the bindery at once.

  24. A book of this sort should never be rebound but should be discarded and a new copy purchased even if the cost of a new copy be much greater than that of rebinding.

  25. In the one case the book can be rebound with profit, in the other it is best to discard it and buy the latest edition.

  26. Non-fiction books which are likely to remain in use for a longer period of years may need to be rebound and trimmed again.

  27. Certainly it should never be rebound again.

  28. This must never be done if it is possible that the book will need to be rebound later.

  29. A recent advertisement of a binder stated that his books were rebound more times than the books of any other binder.

  30. If it is an old one that is evidently popular, it is reasonable to suppose that it is the policy of the library to supply the demand for this book, and the book will be rebound as a matter of course.

  31. To return now to your observation, that if a ball is thrown obliquely against the wall, it will not rebound in the same direction; tell me, have you ever played at billiards?

  32. And I now understand why balls filled with air rebound better than those stuffed with bran or wool; air being most susceptible of compression and most elastic, the reaction is more complete.

  33. It was almost with good cheer in my voice and a rebound of spirits that I explained, as I hurried my companions across the raft, what my plan was.

  34. Yes, yes," I replied joyfully, before the words had well ceased to rebound from the walls.

  35. Ridicule is the negative approach to a subject anyway; the only good it can accomplish is by reflex action or rebound force.

  36. Acts that hurt others will rebound and hurt us.

  37. Deeds that help others will rebound and help us.

  38. Nort was in the wildest spirits, the rebound from his unusual mood of seriousness.

  39. Heed it not in conduct and thought and it will rebound upon you with damaging effect.

  40. He might," Morgan granted, and with subdued voice and thoughtful manner that gave them a fresh rebound of hope.

  41. It might be a year or two before healthy legitimate trade could take the place of this flashy life, and it might never rebound from the operation.

  42. 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.

  43. Olympus and by all the gods of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers.

  44. The various governments, stunned by the rebound of the Revolution, stood on their guard.

  45. Is it not, above all, because every rank of society suffers from the rebound of the attacks made politically on the principle of authority?

  46. But in the rebound they thrust their assailant backward with startling violence.

  47. Iris reflected, with elastic rebound from despair to relief, that men in the lower ranks of life do not usually form theories on the expensive virtues of the wine of France.

  48. What rebound from the gates of Death to the threshold of Eden!

  49. The rebound of the hammer from the gongs tended, in other words, to accelerate the rate of vibration, which, as might be expected, caused a serious difficulty in the practical operation of the bells.

  50. But the blade would rebound against a hard invisible resistance.

  51. Their speeches followed each other with the thud and rebound of a swift rally over the tennis-net.

  52. Put your hand upon your abdomen and breathe strongly and you will feel the rebound of all the movements of the diaphragm.

  53. There is an artery which passes there, and the little beating you feel is the rebound of the pulsations, of your heart.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebound" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backfire; backlash; boom; boomerang; booming; bounce; bound; buoyancy; cannon; carom; echo; flexibility; give; glance; growl; grumble; grumbling; kick; liveliness; rebound; rebuff; recoil; repercussion; repulse; resilience; resound; resounding; return; reverberate; reverberation; ricochet; roar; roll; rumble; rumbling; snap; sound; spring; stretch; thunder; thundering; tone; tonus