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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:

Phalaenopsis amabilis , the lovable moth-resembling orchid, or Trichocentrum orthoplectron , the hairy-spurred cock's spur orchid (another binomial that tries to say it twice).
An impasse on disarmament could paralyze the two-month-old power-sharing government in Belfast and may ultimately spur the UK to re-impose direct rule.
See, if the ECI was right, then that means that inflation is pretty well under control, which helped lower interest rates and spur a lot of buying in the stock market.
education and training enhance the knowledge and skills of a nation's work force-the nation's human capital-and R&D can spur technological improvement.
In the old days, Newt didn't need fossils to spur him on.