leap
verb (used without object)
to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump.
am leaping
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present progressiveof leap (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I know, but I have to hurry here; this is the broken back of my story; some business briefly transacted, I am leaping for Barbara's apron-strings.
From Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson
I know, but I have to hurry here; this is the broken back of my story; some business briefly transacted, I am leaping for Barbara’s apron-strings.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
I am leaping to the end, before the end has come.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
