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Example sentences for: spur

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

As a spur to improvements in the system, given the slow pace of top-down efforts at reform, it seems worth trying out in different ways, but it shouldn't be considered a cure-all, especially for the worst-off schools.
One is Bush's offer of $3 billion in loan guarantees to spur the construction of 2,000 charter schools in two years.
France officially adopted the metric system in the early 1800s, and the rest of the continent quickly followed in hopes that a standardized measurement system would spur international trade.
Describing potentially intractable problems might also spur on young readers who are thinking of studying evolutionary biology with the hope that there are still some theoretical battles to be conquered.
As the power of traders and private bankers has grown, government economic policy has become hostage to the financiers' and speculators' fears that economic growth will spur inflation, which will reduce the value of their holdings.