Like a cork on a wave

Usage examples of bobbing.

Mina Gelmann wagged an admonitory finger in the direction of the bobbing blue ellipse.

The boat was just swinging up beside the amphibian plane bobbing gently around on the water.

Permanent Copula loping toward him, its twin heads and arms bobbing, one half of the creature serene, the other half straining to realize every pleasure Alien City had to offer.

He looked down upon the bobbing head, whose ministrations he began to feel ever more powerfully, and was taken by the heart shaped buttocks rising creamily behind it.

As Dex approached the bobbing life pod, he was startled to see giant prehistoric creatures swimming by.

A flock of dotterels bobbing, bowing, skipping, and shouldering one another may be merely practising some evolution with serious intent, though it is far more natural to conclude that the frail little birds are in holiday humour.

The water hyacinths formed an outer ring around the tattered shoreline, their bobbing heads a deeper purple than the water, their foliage the same deep green as the duckweed that grew between them, giving the appearance that the flowers grew on solid ground.

Taking advantage of this moment of inattention, Fent shouldered past them both with the box and trotted smartly down the path, his red head bobbing with suppressed energy.

They dived deeper, through a band of pressure and temperature where water rain fell, pattering hard against the skins of their whirling double discs, then on down, down into even wide-light darkness, down to the warm hydrogen slush where the discs floated like giant double-cone yo-yos, bobbing, steaming, flickering signals to each other.

I felt at seeing Gio, his blond head bobbing and ducking among the crowd of bullies we had duped, smiling at me as I left.

He handed her the keys and went jogging up the walk, bobbing and bowing in merry hostship to the occupants of the other units.

There were needle-thin submarines bobbing tethered between barquentines, and chariot ships filled with hotchi burrows.

Memnon was busy and crowded, but Reiver was as tall as he was skinny, and his kaffiyeh a twist of rags every color of the rainbow, so Amber and Hakiim could spot him bobbing amidst the market day crowd.

Their bobbing lightsticks caused sharp shadows to dance in all directions across the rock-littered terrain.

At the end of a long hawser, she passed again under Point Loma and continued westward to sea, bobbing high in the water as when she had first been launched, but now blind and comatose, bereft of sensors, crew and weapons, and thus no longer a ship, only a hull as she had been at Orange when I first saw her.