How to Use leap into action in a Sentence

leap into action

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  • The challenge caused the men to leap into action, each fighting for a few minutes with her.
    Haley Kluge, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Almost akin to a fire drill at school, when a whale appeared, the village would leap into action.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Luckily, the boy’s protectors were able to leap into action in time to save him.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Why couldn’t this deadbeat Muppet dad with a soul patch on top of his existing fur leap into action?
    Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Alma organizes a brigade of workers to leap into action when a coworker has been hit.
    Micah Uetricht, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Even Super Dog makes an appearance — cape, mask and all — ready to leap into action the moment a snack bag rustles.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But when Amin gave his expulsion order, the British government didn't leap into action.
    Lucy Fulford, CNN, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Once the psychological wounds start healing, leap into action.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • When a video is posted online of a mysterious man killing two kittens, internet users across the world leap into action to find the perpetrator.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The overall financial crisis forced central banks around the world to leap into action to protect their national economies from a tide of pending bankruptcies.
    Justin Guay, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2020
  • These leap into action within milliseconds to release the extra power needed when energy supply elsewhere on the grid falters.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2025
  • As houses go dark and factories shutter, governments will leap into action, banning or severely curtailing mining.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2021
  • And Bourla believes Pfizer is ready to leap into action with new vaccines to protect against the possible variants within 100 days.
    CBS News, 15 June 2021
  • Genes that are part of what’s known as the HLA complex help the body identify proteins made by pathogens, such as viruses, and leap into action when a foreign invader is present.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 July 2023
  • But local and state resources are limited, leaving local residents to leap into action, as well as community nonprofits that have become adept at responding to these types of crises in the city.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2021
  • While officials in Wuhan initially dithered and obfuscated for fear of political reprisals, the authorities now leap into action at any sign of new infections, if at times with excessive zeal.
    New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Protocols call for emergency medical services to leap into action even as law enforcement speeds to the scene at the moment 911 receives its first call about an active shooter event, Streib said.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2021

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