sprung

[spruhng]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of spring.

sprung

/ sprʌŋ /

verb

1. the past participle and a past tense of spring

Other Word Forms

• self-sprung adjective
• unsprung adjective

Example Sentences

Outside Termini railway station a small tent camp has sprung up with a sign declaring its address as "Piazza Gaza".

From BBC

Up and down the territory, hundreds of new Israeli military checkpoints have sprung up, often accompanied by sudden road closures.

From BBC

As a pre-teen, freshly sprung from an orthodontist’s chair, my idea of heaven was a Wendy’s fry — natural-cut, skins freckled along the edges, salt like tiny rhinestones clinging to grease — dunked into a chocolate Frosty.

From Salon

Performing “Fiddler” in Yiddish returns the characters to the language of Sholem Aleichem’s stories, the fictional world from which they sprung.

From Los Angeles Times

Rows of tents - which have sprung up over the city to shelter Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military campaign - have also disappeared over the past month, the images show.

From BBC