(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.
Strung
Definition:
(imp.) of String
(p. p.) of String
() imp. & p. p. of String.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her own debut album, 12 Stories (released on 22 October), displays the full range of her emotional acuity and wit in dissecting the strung-out, pill-addicted, adulterous heart of small-town America.
(2) 45 min: Cameroon haven't strung more than two passes together all half.
(3) The fight was like a tightly-strung bow, but neither archer was releasing the arrow.
(4) But that’s only because the £50m price tag that the club have strung around his neck is so heavy that he physically cannot move.
(5) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(6) The second study proves a new betablocking agent to have sociotropic effects: in a long-term trial socially high-strung subjects showed an improved interaction behavior (compared to placebo and socially easy-going persons) in their everyday life.
(7) For generations, these winter winds have been a trial for the crofting and fishing communities which are strung along the coastline.
(8) Balloons are strung up around the lawns and youngsters can have guided tours of the seat of power.
(9) Last summer, his team strung a 700-metre-long cable between two cliffs at a geological park in central China and the Prince, seeking a new challenge, decided to cross it backwards and blindfolded.
(10) Partly as a response to that image of strung-out adolescent boys, products aimed more at women and at an older market have tended not to call themselves games at all.
(11) No one can relax when the food is too highly strung.
(12) "Africans who refused to take the Mau Mau oath have had ropes tied around their necks and been strung up from rafters until unconscious.
(13) It’s possible Mary Berry is in fact a trojan behemoth, and viewers might wonder what dark secrets she’s hiding as a highly strung web administrator from Kettering furiously puts the finishing touches to a multi-tiered woodland-themed Genoese sponge.
(14) Equally, in every situation, Mason was the defender of Ophuls, a high-strung, stylistic perfectionist who was having a hard time in Hollywood.
(15) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
(16) Then, as now, the mood was dominated by a crucial question: how do you a balance a need for jobs with the demand for a good quality of life for residents strung out kilometres away from Sydney’s CBD?
(17) His original masterplan included two championship golf courses, with a five-star hotel, tower blocks of timeshare apartments, luxury villas, equestrian and tennis complexes, a golfing academy, and shopping village strung along a sweeping avenue called Trump Boulevard.
(18) Like a few cushions piled up with a pearl string strung around the bottom.
(19) I was so highly strung and so stressed out and of course I would have answered the door because it might have been the police,” he said.
(20) Abu Jamal [his Islamic nom de guerre] is fighting in Syria, with a bushy beard covering his face and bullets strung across his chest.