Example Sentences

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The lion she normally rides is springing out of her chest.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

If “Succession” is an ice bath, “The Righteous Gemstones” is a slip-n-slide, but the water is springing from the same source.

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

This team is springing leaks all over the place.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021

As the COVID-19 vaccination rates climb, over-the-board chess is springing back to life, and not a moment too soon.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2021

From the constant use of the hard anthracite coal in these beastly furnaces, a perfectly new class of diseases is springing up in the country.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John