Example sentences for: leapt

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

  • The stock leapt 11 points on the 17 th , 15 points on the 20 th , and 23 points on the 21st, fell back a little on the 22 nd , and then bounced further ahead on the next two days.

  • 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).

  • Along with that came news that unit labor costs leapt 3.8 percent in the second quarter, after a minuscule 0.8 percent increase in the first.

  • In less than two weeks, their verdict on the bombing of Yugoslavia leapt from unfulfilled objectives to failure to impossibility.

  • 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).


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