Example sentences for: sprang

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

  • The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)

  • As such, they're intended for literary monastics, for the tenured priesthood of paid interpreters that sprang up in colleges after World War II with the help of massive public funding from schemes such as the GI Bill and Pell grants.

  • In short, the slang term sprang up immediately and collectively, and no one person could ever claim to be the inventor of it.

  • But from the time of John Wycliffe until the mid 1600s, we spelled it abhominable in the belief that it sprang from the Latin elements ab away from and homo man.

  • Originally, the organizers hoped for a fall convention but they sprang at the opportunity when the rooms opened up.


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