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

Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 is also holding in nicely as more and more kids are sprung from school for spring break. —Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2024

Other opinions held that the crowd anger had sprung from the Williams sisters making expensive semifinal tickets useless. —Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024

Silva sprang from her chair to process what was happening to the evidence in her case just a few miles away. —Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024

Nodal and Pluma’s first collab springs from No. 5 to crown the chart with 8.3 million audience impressions earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 21, according to Luminate; that’s a 27% gain from the previous week. —Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2024

The Supreme Court ruling sprang from wrongful death claims against the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Mobile Infirmary. —Bracey Harris, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024

The man best known for playing Pinhead, an extra-dimensional, demonic Cenobite creature sprung from the imagination of horrormeister Clive Barker, is modest and engaging and, pun intended, not at all prickly about the honor. —Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2024

But backlash last spring from recreation supporters and other groups prompted city officials to slightly reduce marshland in a compromise proposal released in June. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023

Swainson’s hawk With one of the longest migrations of any American raptor, Swainson’s hawks travel in the spring from their wintering grounds in Argentina to breed in North America, with some reaching as far north as Alaska. —Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024