spring from

phrasal verb

sprang from or sprung from; sprung from; springing from; springs from

informal

: to start from or be caused by (something)

The idea sprang from a dream I had.

Examples of spring from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Meeting the outgoing fashionista Marin Kitagawa draws him out of his shell, with a friendship that springs from their mutual enthusiasm for costume-making eventually turning romantic. —Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025

The mutes, the dropouts, the sense that an idea had sprung from the artist’s chest, been scrambled into code, then reassembled in a fugue. —Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 8 Dec. 2025

However high-reaching his designs were, Gehry’s inspiration sometimes sprang from the ordinary. —Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 7 Dec. 2025

But the movie isn’t a cheaply cynical or nihilistic experience; its gravest horrors spring from a complex understanding of how human compassion persists in a universe that is fundamentally opposed to its existence. —Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for spring from

• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom
• wherefrom
• abomasum
• bum
• chum
• come