Example sentences for: leaped

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

  • Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected—including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a 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).

  • It was soon flourishing; with its natural harbor that attracted ships, Hong Kong leaped to the forefront as a base for trade.

  • 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.

  • All papers front the latest on Brazil's economic roller-coaster: The Brazilian stock market leaped 33 percent Friday as the government decided to let its currency, the real, drop to market level (the real obliged, plummeting nine percent more).

  • 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.


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