How to Use spring into/to action/life in a Sentence

spring into/to action/life

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  • Doing so makes the glasses spring to life with glowing green text and symbols across your eyes.
    — PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Knight sits right next to the organist, ready to spring into action should the need arise.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • And don't hold your breath for this group to spring into action and give us all some clarity.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • And when that happens, the Belles spring into action, then, too.
    — Colbi Edmonds Madeline Gray, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Young’s research team quickly moved aside so the ship’s crew could spring into action.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2021
  • His followers have shown themselves quick to spring to action.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • All crews must be able to spring into action within three minutes if needed.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
  • My laptop stays in a closet, ready to spring into action if needed.
    — Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 17 Jan. 2025
  • And there have been recent signs that the tropical Atlantic could soon spring to life.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The peace movement will spring to action as soon as Israel takes the fight to Hamas in Gaza.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Sleeping in the truck next to the bog on cold nights, ready to spring into action with sprinklers to protect the fruit from freezing.
    — John Tlumacki, The Boston Globe, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Some shocked church attendees ran out of the church upon seeing the pastor spring into action.
    — NBC News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Mice were also much more likely to spring into action for familiar mice, as opposed to strangers.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 21 Feb. 2025
  • If the sleigh is malfunctioning, or a part is predicted to fail, those elves will spring into action.
    — Richard Howells, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • This network is not waiting for Election Day to spring into action.
    — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • These are songs that need the existence of a Juliette Gréco to form themselves, to spring to life.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 June 2023
  • On Tuesday, the city’s public fountains will spring to life on Fountain Day.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024
  • From late April onward, the grassy knolls around Cortina, aka the Pearl of the Dolomites, spring to life.
    — Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In the footage at the pond, Cobb sprints to his car to get a window punch, and other bystanders quickly spring into action.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Terence Coventry’s angular bronze bull seems to sniff the air, tail taunt, for all the world ready to spring into action.
    — Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Teams are spread out around the incident, ready to spring into action if a troublesome drone is identified.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 9 July 2022
  • That extra moment of anticipation is all a dog needs to spring into action.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • Visible items, phone alerts, time of day, and location can be good visual reminders to help your brain spring into action.
    — Carley Millhone, Health, 29 Jan. 2025
  • At the sight of them, the villagers around me spring to action, shouting in Quechua and waving the rope aggressively.
    — David Nolan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
  • As soon as the Ferrari came to a stop, Wilson spring into action, with a witness at the scene calling the star a hero.
    — Michael Y. Park, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The insects secrete various 'danger signals' in their pheromones that can tell the entire colony to spring into action.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
  • In summer, outdoor activities and festivals spring to life in the village.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2025
  • Keep your eyes peeled for the watchful marble busts, which lurk in the background as pistol-wielding paintings and floating candelabras spring to life.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
  • Viewed this way, the machines in Stérin’s menagerie spring to life, displaying a dizzying variety of different patterns.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • In the clip, Hilton requests that Faux Tom sing for her, prompting him to spring into action with a pretty decent cover.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022

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