SPRUNG in a Sentence

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70 example sentences for SPRUNG, such as:

1. A range of buildings have sprung up along the river.
2. If he could have sprung out of his chair, he would have done so.
3. But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of.
4. Mother reindeer had to leave her baby behind on whom the hyenas had sprung.
5. The Disinherited Knight sprung from his steed, and also unsheathed his sword.

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1  The love which had sprung up in his heart was not the sudden, changeable fancy of a boy, but rather the wild, fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  In the end, it was named the Battle of the Cowshed, since that was where the ambush had been sprung.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
3  The old man had sprung upon him from his hiding-place behind a tree.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  "So," he had sprung out from behind a tree on to the children.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
5  No house had been built; no town had sprung up.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
6  But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
7  The champions a second time sprung from their stations, and closed in the centre of the lists, with the same speed, the same dexterity, the same violence, but not the same equal fortune as before.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  The Disinherited Knight sprung from his steed, and also unsheathed his sword.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The faithful Gurth indeed sprung forward on the planked bridge, to warn Cedric of his impending fate, or to share it with him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  No longer a serf, but a freeman and a landholder, Gurth sprung upon his feet, and twice bounded aloft to almost his own height from the ground.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
11  He was still handsome and robust, though just a little afraid of the new world that had sprung up around him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  If he could have sprung out of his chair, he would have done so.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  His mind was fagged, and her happiness sprung from being the friend with whom it could find repose.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  She spoke from the instinctive wish of delaying shame; she spoke with a resolution which sprung from despair, for she spoke what she did not, could not believe herself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
15  Withdrawing his other hand from Mr. Bumble's he covered his face with both; and wept until the tears sprung out from between his chin and bony fingers.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Mother reindeer had to leave her baby behind on whom the hyenas had sprung.
2  A range of buildings have sprung up along the river.
3  He sprung his secret, but the surprise it occasioned was largely counterfeit and not as clamorous and effusive as it might have been under happier circumstances.