‘A child caught his ball on the bounce and turned with his friends to admire our cars.’
‘The full-back came from nowhere to take the ball on the bounce.’
‘He took the ball on the bounce and positively shook off at least three tacklers before finding himself with only the centre to beat and two metres to go.’
‘The full back gathered a misplaced clearance kick before chipping the defence and gathering the ball on the bounce to score a great individual try.’
‘He hit the ball on the bounce low into the bottom right-hand corner of the net.’
‘Fielding in my usual habitat (the boundary), I even managed to stop the odd ball that came my way, and caught one rather neatly on the bounce.’
‘His shot on the bounce from the right side of the box flew over the bar.’
‘He hit a shot on the bounce - from 30 yards - but the ball went straight into the arms of the keeper.’
‘The forward burst through and hitting a lovely half-volley on the bounce.’
1.1informal In quick succession.
‘it's nice to get four victories on the bounce’
‘He won four frames on the bounce to edge 4-3 ahead.’
‘Coming off four heavy defeats on the bounce, his charges looked lamentably short on confidence.’
‘We've been striving for that consistency and to win four on the bounce is brilliant.’
‘It's one of those leagues - you can win four on the bounce and go top or you can lose four and go right down - and that's exactly what we've done.’
‘It gave him back-to-back victories in the race and his thirteenth on the bounce.’
‘We'd won six on the bounce before that and had turned our season around, so it was vital that we didn't slip up again.’
‘We've had three tough games on the bounce but only come away with a point, which just isn't good enough.’
‘There would have been more pressure on me if I had come into a team that had won every single game on the bounce.’
‘Things had started to come together the previous season when we won six or seven on the bounce.’
‘We know we have to build on the win and put together an unbeaten run of five or six games on the bounce.’
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