How to Use springing in a Sentence

springing

noun
  • No more springing forward and losing an hour of sleep in March.
    Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The hospital project is just one of many springing up across the country and around the world.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • There were others, too, each with their own corresponding meal springing to mind.
    Devra Ferst, Bon Appetit, 5 July 2017
  • Arthur recommends springing for beautiful pieces that will have a place in your home for years, if not decades.
    Heather Bien, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
  • The charge to the vault is followed by the springing jump on the platform to greet the vault followed by the move and then sticking the landing.
    The Lonnquist Notes, By Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram.com, 8 May 2017
  • On the foot’s way to stopping, or to twisting or springing to the next step, the sole’s intricate designs stick, then slip, then stick.
    John Branch, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2017
  • Groveland is about to become a big place with growth and development springing up inside the city and all around it.
    Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Based on their strong start, Wilson insists all is not lost springing into February.
    Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Using elaborate projections, the stage becomes a painting springing to life through the artist's eyes.
    Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Then on Thursday, on Houston’s opening day of springing training, the club somehow made things worse.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Perhaps one of these things will happen; the Kremlin and the Ukrainian army both have a way of springing surprises.
    Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 11 May 2022
  • Those savings will apparently stick around through next week, which could entice some mobile shoppers into springing for the new mint color.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Passengers, and that includes back-seaters, can actually enjoy the ride, thanks to the soft springing and ample leg- and headroom.
    Pete Lyons, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The new Perfume series shifts the action to the modern day and uses the book's idea of manipulating people through scent as a springing-off point.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
  • These arches pivot together around common springing points to create a 40-degree tilt in just 4 minutes.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The team will need to create more chances for him as a downfield threat, but there’s no questioning his gift for springing free from the slot, his reliable hands or his ferocious thirst to reach the end zone.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2024
  • When asked what ingredients to look for in an eye cream, our dermatologists recommended springing for peptides.
    Lacey Muinos, Health, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Night-blooming cereus does the opposite, springing into flower only under cover of darkness, as bewitching as a succubus.
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • But before springing into the flamethrower routine, Beatty goads Montag into touching and flipping through a book.
    Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 18 May 2018
  • The equaliser set up a grand-stand finish to proceedings, with Arsenal springing into life once more while Wolves looked their threatening-selves on the counter.
    SI.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Morejón retired the Nationals in order in the ninth with help from Díaz springing athletically from behind the plate to deny a bunt single.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • The creature appeared to move — running with a springing gait, according to one interpretation, or falling dead, according to another.
    Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • Spring is springing, mercury retrograde is retrograding, and the R29 shopping team is — surprise — shopping.
    Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Facebook is merely the most recognizable face of data mining science springing up in recent years to gather information on nearly every industry.
    Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Spring is springing, mercury retrograde is retrograding, and the R29 shopping team is — surprise, surprise — shopping.
    Esther Newman, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The archaeology and mysticism never keep him from springing surprises, including plenty of humor.
    John Domini, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • There went the Warriors, slogging to the finish line of a long regular season and springing to life by dispatching San Antonio in their first-round playoff series.
    Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
  • That ritual springing forward in March and falling back in November is apparently so much of a pain that Congress is considering stepping in.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
  • But the vehicle encountered several key issues during the first leg of its trip, including springing helium leaks and experiencing thruster outages, that have delayed its return.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • New Hampshire teen corrals out-of-control boat Father-son duo caught on video springing into action to stop an unmanned powerboat spinning in circles on Lake Winnipesaukee.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 7 July 2024

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