LEAPT in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for LEAPT, such as:

1. The cat leapt from the chair.
2. Out they leapt, jerked, skipped.
3. Then the little tailor leapt down.
4. His name leapt out at me from the newspaper.
5. Stephen leapt up and caught the ball in one hand.

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1  His heart leapt to his mouth, for this was none other than the great Brigham Young himself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2  Even the cat suddenly leapt off a roof onto a cowman's shoulders and sank her claws in his neck, at which he yelled horribly.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
3  Up he leapt, toppling in his fright, and saw coming towards him a terrible peaked eyeless monster moving on legs, brandishing arms.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  Young men in shorts leapt out on one side; girls with skin-coloured legs on the other.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
5  Out they leapt, jerked, skipped.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  But, she was crying, had we met before the salmon leapt like a bar of silver.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
7  But it leapt, and leapt downwards, circling in his knees.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  He came round it and leapt upon the bank beside her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
9  They leapt to their feet, they ran from the table, and they stood pressed against the wall, huddled together, seeking the warmth of one another's bodies to give them courage.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART SEVEN
10  We swung our fist through the windowpane, and we leapt out in a ringing rain of glass.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART SEVEN
11  We leapt forward, we ran to them, and we stood looking upon the Golden One.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART NINE
12  I saw his breath beat quicker and quicker, pause, and then his little soul leapt like a star that travels in the night and left a world of darkness in its train.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XI
13  The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
14  Then the little tailor leapt down.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR
15  The youth nevertheless escaped from them, but his horse leapt so violently that the helmet fell from the youth's head, and they could see that he had golden hair.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
Example Sentence:
1  Stephen leapt up and caught the ball in one hand.
2  When her brother was criticized she leapt to his defence.
3  The cat leapt from the chair.
4  The dog leapt forward,but it failed to clear the fence.
5  Whenever their team scored a goal, they leapt up and down clanking their beer cans together.
6  A huge guy leapt out at Chris and pinned him against the wall.
7  He leapt into the car and drove like a maniac to the hospital.
8  He leapt onto the train just as it was pulling away.
9  Rufus Sewell leapt to fame after his lead performance as Will Ladislaw in the BBC's production of Middlemarch.
10  Our industry has leapt forward since we followed the policy of reform and opening.
11  His name leapt out at me from the newspaper.