spring
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Examples of spring in a Sentence
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We'll plant the seeds next spring. We've had a rainy spring. a beautiful day in early spring The first few weeks of spring were unusually warm. The mattress is old and some of the springs are broken. The cushion has lost its spring.
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Your body springs into action, combining enough platelets (blood cells that adhere to each other) and proteins from plasma (the liquid part of your blood) to plug the injured blood vessel, the Mayo Clinic says. — Korin Miller, SELF, "Here’s When to See a Doctor About Period Clots," 1 Mar. 2019 An egg with its bright yellow center and the life that springs from it, says Wolynetz. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, "The History of Easter Eggs and Why They're Decorated," 25 Feb. 2019 The hull has sprung several smaller oil leaks over the years. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "How the U.S. Is Recovering Oil from a Nuked Warship," 17 Sep. 2018 The old footage reveals that spring has sprung earlier along the race course in the past decade. — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, "36 years of bike race footage reveals how Belgium’s climate is changing," 3 July 2018 The strange crustacean, which likely sprang into existence 25 years ago, lays eggs without mating. — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, "Mutant female crawfish invade Europe: report," 6 Feb. 2018 More Film Reviews There’s another reason for the film’s immediacy, one that springs from Mr. Jenkins’s strategy for honoring a singular book by a peerless American writer. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, "‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Review: Love Hoping for Justice," 13 Dec. 2018 Because the excitement for women candidates sprung from the Women’s March—that is, patent resistance to Trump—Republican women can’t capitalize on that momentum. — Rebecca Nelson, Marie Claire, "Party Crashers: These Female Candidates Are Shaking Up The Midterms," 2 Nov. 2018 The unexpected brute that quickly sprang from a weekend tropical depression grew swiftly, rising in days to a catastrophic storm. — Brendan Farrington, The Seattle Times, "Florida Panhandle braces for Michael, now a Category 4 storm," 10 Oct. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Jeremy MoellerGetty Images The most talked-about event of the spring? — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, "These Coachella Outfit Ideas Are So Good, You'll Be Watching the Likes Roll In," 7 Mar. 2019 The organization recently announced the shortlist for the 2018 awards (winners will be announced on December 4th), which run the gamut from the psychological effects of movie genres to how spring is arriving earlier and earlier. — Angela Chen, The Verge, "Check out some of the best data visualizations from the Information is Beautiful awards," 28 Oct. 2018 After 14 months of winter and three days of spring, the temperatures have hit blistering, and the humidity is hanging over us like a mushroom cloud. — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, "If parents went to summer camp," 27 June 2018 Getty Images In spring of 2018, reports surfaced that Ronaldo regretted the split, was still in love with Shayk, and was jealous of her relationship with Cooper. — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, "Who Is Irina Shayk? Everything You Need to Know About Bradley Cooper's Long-Time Girlfriend," 24 Feb. 2019 In most of the country, the weather is still cold AF, and spring can feel so far away. — Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, "Here’s What’s Coming to/Leaving Netflix in March 2019," 20 Feb. 2019 The Duchess of Sussex is due in spring of 2019 and has had to endure lots of negative comments about her body. — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, "'The View' Star Abby Huntsman Got Super Emotional About Being Body-Shamed," 11 Jan. 2019 In spring of 2018, after she was sufficiently recovered from her second transplant, Hyland had two surgeries within a few weeks of each other: a laparoscopic surgery for her endometriosis, and her hernia repair surgery. — Zahra Barnes, SELF, "Sarah Hyland Opens Up About Dialysis and Her Second Kidney Transplant," 10 Dec. 2018 The design is underway, and the park project is expected to go out for bid this fall, followed by construction in the winter and spring of 2019, according to county government spokesperson Mumby. — David Anderson, The Aegis, "Harford to end ownership of arts center site," 15 June 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
At worst, Dee Dee purposefully kept the veneers from Gypsy and sprang them on her to look like a hero. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "Hulu’s The Act Is Horrifying, Human, and Hard to Stop Watching," 20 Mar. 2019 There's so much pressure on women to do emotional labor — remember anniversaries, buy thoughtful gifts, send cards on a friend's cat's birthday and check in when their shower springs a leak. — Eva Woods, Good Housekeeping, "How to Marie Kondo Your Friends," 15 Jan. 2019 Full of blind corners, vertical shafts, and narrow spaces, underground facilities are extremely dangerous to explore, with plenty of opportunities for enemy troops to spring an ambush. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The U.S. Military Wants Drones To Fly Through Enemy Caves and Map Them," 4 Oct. 2018 The league set this trap for itself believing that nobody ever would have any reason to spring it. — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, "Trump Has Made the NFL His Punching Bag. The League’s Best Response Is Defiance," 9 July 2018 West Allis Hale at Greendale, 7 p.m. Wednesday: A Hale squad with seven one-run losses tries to spring an upset of the Woodland Conference tournament runner-up. — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Milwaukee-area baseball rankings, weekly honors," 9 July 2018 Pastor Tim Maxson leads Communion on a recent Friday at Fellowship, a Dubai congregation that sprang up roughly a decade ago. — Asa Fitch, WSJ, "In Arab Nation, Christians, Buddhists and Jews Emerge to Worship," 27 Jan. 2019 They're barred from working outside the camp and must search for jobs within the small economy that has sprung up—running makeshift shops selling soda or shoes or working for aid organizations. — Sarah Butrymowicz, Marie Claire, "Refugee Girls Want to Change the World. Will We Let Them?," 7 Jan. 2019 The protests sprung up in reaction to a shakeup at the Department of Justice that has thrown the future of that investigation into doubt. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "“Protect Mueller” protests pop up across the country," 9 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spring.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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spring
nounFinancial Definition of spring
How It Works
Springs are a type of technical pattern named by legendary technician Richard Wycoff. The quality of the spring can be judged by an examination of the degree of penetration of support or resistance, as well as the volume on the day or period this penetration occurred. These four scenarios are possible:
-- Large penetration on large volume
Large penetration on small volume
Small penetration on large volume
Small penetration on small volume
For a spring, a small penetration on small volume is bullish, as it indicates there are few traders who are willing to sell their shares below support.
Springs provide the swing trader with good opportunities. First, they can provide a stop loss, which should be placed just below the extreme of the day the spring occurred. They can also create a target, since the stock is likely to test the opposite end of the trading range.
Why It Matters
Being able to accurately recognize a spring can turn a potential threat from a false breakouts into an opportunity. Swing traders should always watch the activity following a breakout to confirm whether a stock is behaving as it should. If not, then it might still provide an excellent trading situation -- if you spot a spring in the making.
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