A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.
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Examples for "spring "
1 The feed situation is still good because of really good spring rain.
2 Last year, 260 companies reportedly participated in the spring fair, for example.
3 Let us wait until March, until the spring of the new year.
4 I ain't had a good turnip since a year ago this spring .
5 Hardy; plant in early spring , or in the South in the fall.
1 Although the crisis magnifies Noonan's power, he remains bound by EU strictures.
2 Media reports are bound to underestimate the true scale of protest, however.
3 The market has been range - bound since late last week over political worries.
4 Likewise, the left thumb shall be bound to the right great toe.
5 The parts were bound for key military installations, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
1 Its leap bore it to a point far short of my position.
2 At the time Wright said the move was: no great psychological leap .
3 However, the big leap in deductibles offsets the good news for consumers.
4 Tsinoy hears, however, and makes another creative leap - with another , more important question.
5 However, a decisive leap forward has been mooted by 26 African nations.
1 Boris Johnson said members who make racist comments are 'out first bounce ' .
2 Still, Elmore said with optimal weather conditions, production potential could bounce back.
3 Margins will bounce back when the global economy improves, the company said.
4 You can see in the new version, there's way, way less bounce .
5 The bounce helped lift equities in both the US and the Europe.
1 He conjectures, for example, how saltation and orthogenesis might jointly explain phyletic sequences of limb rudimentation:
2 He then summarizes Mivart's structuralist alternative, describing first the claim for channeling, and then the argument for saltation .
3 That moral saltation is very necessary to political success at Leaplow, and quite probably in many other places.
4 Its characteristic dunes and ripples are the kind formed by sand particles taking short wind-borne hops, a process called saltation .
5 The existence of a few intermediary species shows that the full sequence proceeds by punctuational steps and not by full saltation .
1 We're leaping into other ones -launching new ventures, working from home.
2 Unfortunately, far from leaping to Mr Segundus's defence, Strange never even replied.
3 In the court the boys-itwas the dinner hour- were leaping and running.
4 The Turks are alongside; they are leaping down into the little craft.
5 His mind was already leaping ahead to what needed to be done.
6 The words were leaping out before he knew what he was saying.
7 Which meant that I had seen Priscillus too: leaping out of it.
8 Then the brit broke in silvery leaping waves on the shelving beach.
9 She moved slowly at first and then quickly, leaping into the water.
10 She was a fine columnist too, her words leaping off the page.
11 Sienna was suddenly airborne, leaping off the dock over the open water.
12 Poor Ludwig watched the tumult by the light of the leaping flames.
13 Benvolio and Mercutio outlag one another in hunting after the leaping Romeo.
14 The next moment every nerve in his body was leaping and quivering.
15 The cat was leaping about by itself, the way cats do sometimes.
16 Ullii was across in an instant, leaping right into the scrutator's arms.
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