Example Sentences

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Superman Leaped 40 years' worth of tall buildings on the printed page before he landed his first feature film, in 1978.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up from its sullen gloom Leaped the Grand Army, as if God had writ With fiery finger 'thwart the vault of heaven A solemn promise of swift victory.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

Leaped right up to 68, then to 70, then to 72.

From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry

But Cato's soul Leaped in his breast, impatient of delay, To pass the Syrtes by a landward march, And trusting to their swords, 'gainst tribes unknown To lead his legions.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

And the rabbit from his pathway Leaped aside, and, at a distance, Sat erect upon his haunches, Half in fear, and half in frolic, Saying to the little hunter, "Do not shoot me, Hiawatha."

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.