What's the difference between sprang and sprung?

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.

Sprung


Definition:

  • () of Spring
  • (p. p.) of Spring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Spring.
  • (a.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
  • (3) Besides, his tax cuts are already factored in with voters.” The Tories had no bounce when Cameron first sprung these tax cuts.
  • (4) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
  • (5) Several dozen former Gaddafi administration officials arrested for war crimes in recent weeks were sprung from jail during the uprising.
  • (6) Salafist communities operating outside the official mosques have sprung up in three districts, Gornja Maoča, Osve and Dubnica, and “pop-up” radical mosques, often funded from the Gulf, have appeared in Sarajevo, Zenica and Tuzla.
  • (7) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
  • (8) Several other senior al-Qaida figures have been killed in drone strikes in recent years, and in each case a successor has quickly sprung up.
  • (9) Four weeks later, it was found in the specimens that the growth of neurofibers sprung out from the end of the proximal stump directed towards the distal nerve stump rather than towards the tendon end or the vacant limb of the tube.
  • (10) Over the past year, vigilante groups like this have sprung up in towns and villages across Mexico , especially in the Pacific coast states of Guerrero and Michoacán.
  • (11) "The popular verdict clearly renders the bailout deal null," said the politician, whose stridently anti-austerity coalition of the radical left, known as Syriza, sprung the surprise of the weekend's poll, coming in second with 16.8% of the vote.
  • (12) A wave of fantastical new buildings followed, sci-fi-like structures that seemed to have sprung from the writing of JG Ballard.
  • (13) Business-backed medical chains have sprung up: patients can see a GP in a centre owned by Capio, be sent to a physician in the community employed by Capio, and if their medical condition is serious enough end up being treated by a consultant in a hospital bed in St Göran, run by Capio.
  • (14) In recent months many companies have sprung up offering to buy gold jewellery and other items in exchange for cash.
  • (15) Tapsell and, after some early palpitations, Fabricant, enjoyed their punishment; Prescott and Martin, sprung from the working class and feeling that they were mocked for it, vehemently did not.
  • (16) Kebab stalls that sprung up in the tiniest towns of Thuringia became regular targets for young neo-Nazis.
  • (17) Since Friday, talks between House Republican leaders and the White House have fallen apart, and talks between the party leaders in the Senate have sprung up.
  • (18) What might be even less acceptable to purists are the ballpark traditions that have sprung up around Fenway recently.
  • (19) The route from the hospital runs along the base of the Downs, where the blackthorn has already sprung in the sunshine.
  • (20) The tens of thousands of organic campaigners that have sprung up around the March movement and who participate in anti-government twitter hashtags in equal numbers are the communication infrastructure that Labor should be harnessing to a strategy to overcome the political obstacle of an LNP-aligned mass media filter.

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