Example Sentences

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By July of that year, it had leaped all the way to Réunion Island in the western Indian Ocean.

From Science Magazine • May 28, 2024

With little knowledge of how to treat patients, and amid enormous personal risks, these nurses had leaped into the abyss.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2021

Only about 12 yards from a goal line, Jones inexplicably stumbled and fell, as if an invisible defender had leaped and stretched and made a shoestring tackle.

From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2021

By the second wave of the outbreak in Houston, the study found that this variant had leaped to 99.9 percent prevalence — completing its domination of the outbreak.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2020

The bridge wasn't nearly as high as the cave ledge he had leaped from, but he still didn't want to look down.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat