Example sentences for: leap

How can you use “leap” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • , the work suggests that researchers are only one small step from making a giant leap for humankind.

  • The Department of Labor reported that nonfarm business productivity rose just 1.3 percent in the second quarter, after a 3.6 percent leap in the first.

  • It is difficult to leap from this to Motion's settled opinion that Keats "interpret[ed] writing as a humanitarian mission," or that "he is always engaged with the 'Liberal side of the Question,' even when sinking most deeply into the imagination."

  • (Leap years are easy to identify: they are any year divisible by 4 and centuries divisible by 400: thus, 2000 will be a leap year, but 1900 was not.)

  • The story describes a racially mixed and fractured family, "whose secrets seem to leap from the pages of Faulkner."


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