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Example sentences for: leaped

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

But when it was surrounded by enemy craft, the last of the loyal commanders seized the eight-year-old monarch in his arms and leaped with him to death in the sea.
In Los Angeles County, the Vietnamese population rose nearly 25% in the decade, while the Chinese population leaped by more than 34%.
It was soon flourishing; with its natural harbor that attracted ships, Hong Kong leaped to the forefront as a base for trade.
If Exxon took over Mobil--the most likely scenario, experts say--the resultant company could be worth $160 billion, says the WP . Though both Exxon and Mobil stocks leaped at the news, the WP uses paragraph two to cite cautious experts who worry that various factors--among them the "intense, independent personalities of the two firms' chief executives"--could yet derail the deal.
Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you entered jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected--including the variants leapt , leaped for leap . All in all, for a primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to the far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).