Read full poem →Under the windy wooden piers,
See once again the bobbing barrels,
And the black sticks that fence the weirs,
Dictionary Entry
To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
In a Sentence
“The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “bobbing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →They fish all day the weedy mud,
And tumbler-like are bobbing there,
Heels topsy turvy in the air.
Read full poem →and evening; Tom Pey and Haneo, whose dangerous job it was to dive
under the seven-ton mahogany logs floating and bobbing at the ship’s
side and fasten them to the chains of the crane; the vile houses of
Read full poem →The foam-throated thing went bobbing like a bird,
Till after a space on the second day
Read full poem →To where the cascade tumbles down
And sends the bobbing growths aswing,
And ferns not quite but almost drown.