What's the difference between leapt and sprang?

Leapt


Definition:

  • () of Leap

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (2) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (3) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (4) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
  • (5) Questioner after questioner on the government benches leapt to defend Mr Hunt from a supposed rush to judgment.
  • (6) When it sounded the United goalkeeper leapt to his feet and grabbed Martin Skrtel, sparking a post-match melee, before collapsing in pain once again.
  • (7) This week, a new survey revealed that the number of packaged accounts available has leapt by 94% over the last four years, while the average monthly fee charged has jumped from just over £10 to almost £15 – or £178 a year.
  • (8) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.
  • (9) Hudson has always leapt about, working on titles from Fitness, to Company, to New Woman, to Maxim, to Eve.
  • (10) *applause* February 21, 2014 Reuters has more from the scene: After another open coffin was held aloft by the crowd, a protester wearing battle-fatigues leapt up to the microphone and triggered roars of approval as he declared: “By tomorrow we want him (Yanukovich) out!” Referring to the three opposition leaders, including boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, who were standing behind him, the man said: “My comrade was shot and our leaders shake the hand of a murderer.
  • (11) The only non-Kent town in the top five was Altrincham in Greater Manchester, where asking prices leapt by 21.9% to an average of £484,258.
  • (12) Critics of Peña Nieto leapt on Aristegui’s removal as evidence that the president was cracking down on a dissenting voice in a country where politicians enjoy considerable impunity and are rarely subject to serious scrutiny from much of the mainstream media.
  • (13) Wilfried Bony then leapt above John O’Shea to meet De Bruyne’s free kick.
  • (14) John Terry and Ledley King leapt to meet the rebound with the ball squirting away for Mata to volley from a tight angle into the mass of bodies in the goal-mouth.
  • (15) And the narrower claimant count measure leapt spectacularly through the 1 million barrier to 1.07 million in November, a rise of 75,700 from October - the biggest jump since March 1991 when the economy was also heading into a deep recession.
  • (16) They tell me I've earned it, to keep it, to squirrel it away – but if I was in it for the money I'd have leapt at the first advertising deal offered to me almost a year ago for an upmarket butter brand, and all the 50 or so since then.
  • (17) In the capital, prices leapt by 3.9% in January alone, to reach an average of £336,212.
  • (18) The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers , has leapt to the defence of Raheem Sterling, but insists there is no club versus country row between him and England’s manager, Roy Hodgson.
  • (19) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
  • (20) When the Ebola virus reached the US last year, the public health community leapt into action to address it.

Sprang


Definition:

  • () imp. of Spring.
  • (imp.) of Spring

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (2) Nasa was unclear why the suit sprang a leak, but said specialists would investigate the problem.
  • (3) Today, all those Ralphs and Toms, Percys and Horaces strike us as the most appalling prigs: we have forgotten the world from which they sprang.
  • (4) Many quangos sprang from political failure: the (reprieved) Food Standards Authority , for example, was a response to the collapse in public trust triggered by the badly handled BSE crisis.
  • (5) In an earlier version of the piece these words followed: "He sprang a coup de theatre surprise that forced audiences to examine their own complicity in racism" – it would have helped if they'd been left in.
  • (6) That was a ridiculous thing to say only two years after the events in Cyprus that sprang me off on the play.
  • (7) A radio station sprang up full of voices denouncing Tutsis as less than human, as devils and the enemy, prompting periodic local massacres during the early 1990s.
  • (8) Ek also sprang a surprise at the event, inviting Napster co-founder and Spotify board member Sean Parker and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on to the stage together, despite the band famously suing Napster in 2000.
  • (9) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
  • (10) The intimal thickenings, which occurred mostly in the region of bifurcation of the left coronary artery and at sites where branches sprang from the r. ventricularis anterior of the left coronary artery, were already discernible at the beginning of the period in question (i.e.
  • (11) Giaccherini's header from Adam Johnson's excellent cross was text book, sending the ball back the way it came and bound for the inside of De Gea's right hand post, before the goalkeeper sprang back across his goal to claw it away.
  • (12) Inside Upper Sharia Court 4, officials sprang into action, unsurprised by the violent turn in the trial of seven men accused of being homosexual in the ultraconservative Nigerian state of Bauchi.
  • (13) The protest is reminiscent of the occupation that sprang up at St Paul's Cathedral in 2011 .
  • (14) We have previously reported that hyperthermia induces the expression of a heat shock gene in the rabbit brain (Sprang and Brown, Mol Brain Res 3:89-93, 1987).
  • (15) In The Loop sprang from The Thick Of It, Iannucci's hit-and-run TV satire of New Labour-esque machinations.
  • (16) The campus occupations that sprang up over last term; the mobilisation of 130,000 students on 24 November; the mass demonstration on the day of the parliamentary vote; and then a revival of the movement, unexpected from some quarters, on 29 January – all were organised independently of, if not in defiance of, the NUS leadership.
  • (17) The chancellor was accused of failing to tackle the first-time buyer crisis, after he sprang a nasty surprise on those hoping to get on the property ladder by not extending the stamp duty holiday beyond next March.
  • (18) Angry voters tweeted, while others filmed the chaos on their phones and quickly sprang into action on Facebook .
  • (19) It stopped lending for two years after the crisis reached its peak in October 2008 but sprang back to life in 2010 to capitalise on demand from professional landlords.
  • (20) Zydeco's history, ongoing vibrancy and internal debates (chiefly focused around its omnivorous appetite for outside influences) are another story - but the roots of Prudhomme's music say much about the cultural collision from which it sprang.

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