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Example sentences for: sprang

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

When he sprang out at her, she fled screaming.
As all readers probably know, Laurence or Lawrence sprang in medieval use from the name of the Roman saint who was martyred by being broiled on a gridiron in 258.
The lack of literal historical context also allows us to leave Paradise without learning about the black Western settlements that sprang up during Reconstruction, or the so-called "exodusters" who left the South to seek their fortunes on the frontier.
The height limit was virtually the only regulation applied to building, and a sprawling shantytown soon sprang up.
It takes another hour to search for the Book of the Dead's opposite number, which will theoretically send Imhotep back to the cosmic soup from which he sprang before he can transfer the heroine's soul to the embalmed remains of his lady love.