Example Sentences

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As you open your eyes Sunday morning, have a big stretch and yawn the sleep away, the clocks will have sprung forward in the night, pulling the daylight into the evening for one hour longer.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Clearly many more will have sprung up in a variety of companies and fields since the Twitter hashtag campaign #metoo.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2017

The day is approaching when it will have yielded its noblest fruits, when from it will have sprung forth the loftiest trees, the most enchanting blossoms, the most heavenly blessings.”

From The Promised Day Is Come by Shoghi Effendi

Of course, bushes will have sprung up again but, fast as things grow in this climate, they can hardly have attained any great height; and we shall have no difficulty in clearing the place again.

From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Paget, Walter

The day is approaching when it will have yielded its noblest fruits, when from it will have sprung forth the loftiest trees, the most enchanting blossoms, the most heavenly blessings.”

From The Promised Day Is Come by Shoghi Effendi