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Example sentences for: leap

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

But, says the paper, the leap from mouse to man is a huge one.
(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.)
White-ruffed langur monkeys leap and swing in the treetops, sending flights of green parakeets screeching.
Lewis says about Clark at the outset that "you didn't interact with him so much as hitch a ride on the back of his life"--and that "the only way to spend time with Jim Clark was to leap onto one of his machines."
When he came into the league he was strictly a slasher, relying on speed and a 42-inch vertical leap.