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How to use sprung in a sentence

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Half way across the inlet, in the black silence of the night we discovered that the boat had sprung a leak.
Milo has no idea who sprung him, or why, which is the first puzzler in this dizzying web of intrigue.
We sprung for expensive couchette seats, and ended up with our own little cabin on the boat.
He had snuck out of class for a crafty drag and a teacher, Jase, had sprung him.
John was recently in New Zealand visiting from England and he got sprung for drunk driving.
Like the first Prohibition in the 1920s, an underground industry in alcohol had sprung up, and organized crime grew more powerful.
The long journey took its toll on the intrepid traveller as her petrol tank sprung a leak and her aerial fell off.
Once the impact is over and the panel has sprung back to its original shape, the damage can hardly be seen.
The new model rides well and handles assuredly on long sweeping corners, but seems a mite too softly sprung on sharper bends.
Their weird, unpredictable nature makes them appear to have sprung from a perpetually opened Pandora's box.
Our monosyllabic waiter briefly sprung into life when it came to choosing from the wine list.
Before too long one of the doors sprung open and a page asked them to enter.
A signboard proclaiming Question Papers Unlimited has sprung up on top of a non-descript building in a blind alley.
And with this revelation she felt a new feeling come over her, a surprising tenderness that sprung from old memories unforgotten.
The front suspension is a double wishbone coil spring with damper and a five-link coil sprung solid axle in the rear.
The tank's engine rose and pitch, and gave a sudden lurch as the treads sprung to life.
A citizen's movement has sprung up in Leipzig to protest against the city's strategy for urban renewal.
We came into work one morning, and found that the tank had sprung a leak during the night and all the water had drained out.
Dozens of private gyms and health clubs have since sprung up for those who can afford it.
Desert spaceports and dusty workshops cluttered with rocket nozzles and airframes have sprung up across California and Canada.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thus it was that an intimacy, a sort of comradeship, had sprung up among the three.
Such were some of the evils which had sprung up under the rule of Bobadilla.
On the other side of the channel a vast literature on the subject has sprung up.
The capeador has sprung into the passage extending between the paling and the first row of seats.
In other words, a great part of his gold has sprung from the blood of black slaves.
A southwesterly breeze had sprung up, and there was a watery look about the sky.
A light, stellular in the gloom that hung about the lower levels, suddenly sprung up in the window.
Sending in the rocket scout, he had sprung the Solar Guard trap and had cagily scanned the belt for another ship.
For an instant they wavered, for Caterina had sprung upon the float and was gazing at them through her lorgnon.
We have created a Caesarean environment and a host of little Caesars has sprung up.
Alleyne stared open-eyed at this tigress who had sprung so suddenly to his rescue.
They were a species new to me that seemed to have sprung up in the hard times, just as cooties spring up in time of war.
At that moment she could not have spurred her pony had the lurker in the brush sprung forth into her path!
Beyond doubt, some spore of the afflatus must have sprung up within him in spite of the desert soil of San Saba.
The gravel sweep was weedy, and grass had sprung up at the very jaws of the garage.
Tim and Sambo, seeing it coming, had sprung on to a tree which overhung the stream.
At that time there was no earth nor sea nor heaven, nothing but the icy abyss without bottom, whence Ymir the giant had sprung.
Eugen, as if stung by some tormenting thought, sprung up and we left the wood.
A very promising colony of them seems to have sprung up in my Scotch broom bushes.
From such a cell, half male, half female, the body of every living organism has sprung.
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