Example Sentences

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The network of groups that had sprung up to help this wave of immigrants integrate into the city pivoted.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

By the following spring, the first wildflowers had sprung up, and the native plants were digging deep root systems.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

I wanted to find out where this image had sprung from.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2024

South Ribble Borough Council's environmental health team did an inspection of her drains but the authority said it was ultimately unable to help because the sinkhole had sprung up on private land.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2024

All of the hope that had sprung there, growing and spreading and yielding like a stream, had dried up in an instant.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken