What is "bounced off the walls"

Usage examples of "bounced off the walls".

He bounced off the walls with his feet, flying downward like some pouncing tarant.

The moment one of the engineers arrived, she'd make sure the civilians, a particularly shrill bit of Katrien conversation bounced off the walls and around the inside of her skull, didn't give their position away.

Two arrows found Hillgorse as others clattered and bounced off the walls around Tullgrew and Felldoh, who had succeeded in gaining the walltop with the limp form of Barkjon held between them.

It was a hollow, brittle, sad sound that bounced off the walls inside the vehicle, bonding with the music.

In the vast empty building their voices echoed, ran the length of the marble floor and bounced off the walls.

The notes bounced off the walls, rang off the ears of the djinn, who seemed to have acquired a pleasant indifference to those around him.

He lifted his head and tried to figure out where the gun was located, but the sounds bounced off the walls of the valley.

Isobel could hear the mysterious presence hissing as it bounced off the walls near her.

The nerve-fraying sound bounced off the walls of the narrow passage, echoing and re-echoing.

The noise of the dodgem cars bounced off the walls and the electricity at the tips of their trailing poles fizzed and sparked.