SPRINT in a Sentence

Learn SPRINT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SPRINT, such as:

1. We had to sprint to catch the bus.
2. He has won before at a canter, and at a sprint.
3. The guards slipped past on either side to sprint across the docks.
4. The runners broke into a sprint a few hundred yards from the finish.
5. She can't fly through the air to dunk a basketball, can't break a tackle and sprint to the end zone.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPRINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sprint
 v.  run very rapidly; run at full speed.
Classic Sentence:
1  He's a fine place-kick, it's true, but then he has no judgment, and he can't sprint for nuts.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
2  If he is an elderly man he is not this active cyclist who sprints away from that young lady's athletic pursuit.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
3  That can only mean that the rider is throwing his weight on to the handle-bar, as a man does when he is sprinting.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
Example Sentence:
1  Usually not run hair health meters, accounting for it is hard to carry on one hundred meters sprint.
2  We had to sprint to catch the bus.
3  The runners broke into a sprint a few hundred yards from the finish.
4  The guards slipped past on either side to sprint across the docks.
5  She can't fly through the air to dunk a basketball, can't break a tackle and sprint to the end zone.
6  He has won before at a canter, and at a sprint.