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Sentence Examples The door swung open before he could reach it, and he was forced to leap back to avoid having his nose broken for the second time. Although the Google founders were sure their technology was a quantum leap forward, they had no clue how to turn it into a business. One of these days someone was going to call his bluff and leap over that desk to clock him one. The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago. Maybe I'm a jack of all trades and master of none but, if a new and relevant challenge came along, I'd probably leap at it. These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may. Enormous improvements in the associated technology have enabled nothing less than a quantum leap forward. Instead, you'll stand in front of monuments where civilization took a quantum leap forward. Beautifully staged, it marks a quantum leap in theatrical development from Lovett's first play, The Deadman's Beard. A comprehensive rethink that puts tackling racism at a Cabinet level along with the other measures will be a quantum leap forward. The facility in Athens is a quantum leap forward, even from the setup in Sydney. The Victims' Rights Act represents a quantum leap forward in the recognition of victims' rights. Given these figures and the increased complexity of hybrids, they do not seem to be such a quantum leap forward. It's a quantum leap forward and it certainly brings it to everybody's attention. The development of methods for analyzing inflammation in small airways would be a quantum leap forward. Not only is the Farrelly brothers' latest film the funniest film of the year, it marks a quantum leap forward for the film-making duo. Sure enough, three of them leap at him, sensing the boy as the most powerful, planning to waste him. I leap up, shoving my chair backwards, and point an accusing finger at him. Instead, its designers say it represents a leap forward in wearable technology. This led to an enormous leap in productivity especially among tool makers, weavers and metal workers. Show More Sentences Male dancers stomp and leap while waving pieces of cloth and jingling bells. In a leap year, the intercalcated month is called Adar Sheni and the regular month Adar Rishom. For hundreds of years, people used a calendar called the Julian calendar that followed this rule, adding a leap year every four years. Its bronze ram could smash enemy ships and armed soldiers could leap aboard a foe's vessel in hand-to-hand combat with spears and swords. Certainly, it is hard to discern the leap in activity that could justify this level of response. At low tide fish leap from pool to pool in the makatea-like lagoon floor and you don't even have to travel far to get kai. Symmetrix DMX is rated at 64GBps of peak internal bandwidth, which is a huge leap over the Symmetrix 8000's 1.6GBps. By blogging, I can leap beyond this place and get affirmation for saying things that would only otherwise have gotten me glares and shunning. My infant heart would leap at the sound of the lunch bell, and every day I would fall on that school dinner like a ravening wolf. His fingers leap between frets as the memories flood back and you realise just why people hold this man's musicianship in such high regard. We saw more murders and kidnappings than ever before, and violent crimes took a quantum leap. Each film, by his reckoning, is taking the medium of computerized animation a giant leap forward. All the door staff were primed to leap into action when the ticket machines recognised the 10-millionth visitor and were waiting for the moment. His muscles bunched as his fur stood on end, and I could see that he was readying him self to leap. The Plame investigation took a quantum leap in December 2003, when Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself. And the long clarinet solo over a thundering funk break in the closing piece makes you leap to your feet. This disturbing trend for young white women to leap onstage is just not on. This is a small step for the Welsh cabinet but it's a giant leap for Welsh womankind. So just be careful before you leap forward with a knee-jerk response demanding gun control. This is an enormous leap, for the bulk of Prof. Budziszewski's arguments aim to refute opponents of capital punishment. Show More Sentences But the scale of the leap is very large indeed and the political alignments do not yet vindicate Mr Kennedy's new-found confidence in his vision. This is all very well, but it is quite a leap to say that it is morally wrong to pay people to do unfulfilling work. I've also got X-ray vision, Super breath, and can leap four Range Rovers in a single bound. After a show, when it was just the two of us alone together, he would leap up in the air three times to tell me how much he liked the work. It is because of this general slowing down of the Earth that leap seconds need to be inserted into some years. After one day in the nest, the young leap to the ground or water, often quite a long jump. Arif Mohammed Khan hopped from one channel to another, explaining his leap of faith. This century's leap into aviation and space travel has brought with it a much deeper understanding of the human ability to function at altitude. Take a leap of faith that even though he looks like a thug, he is not necessarily a thug. If she had any doubts about taking a leap into an alien culture, they were banished amid the excitement of being in love. This step by the medical fraternity amounts to a giant leap for the whole country, he added. He took a running leap and jumped onto the cot, sending it crashing to the ground. Mr. O'Brien makes a brave leap in the dark and lands with a resounding thud. Icelanders are brought up to leap across waterfalls, spring through rivers, run down mountains, run up mountains. When the 27-year-old was forced to leap for his life, he bounced 50 yards down the road with other cars swerving to avoid him. His solution has been to drop to all fours and force rushers to leap or trip over him. A female guest was also seriously injured when she was forced to leap from a first floor widow to escape. If you don't have that momentum built up, sometimes you cannot leap the gap. Now, they're called super shoplifters, and while they can't leap a building in a single bound, they probably could steal most of what was in it. Bart is determined to leap a gorge on his skateboard after witnessing the death-defying stunts of a real daredevil. Show More Sentences He must leap over branches the height of his head, and stoop under branches as low as his knee, without slowing or leaving a shaking branch behind. This will be used by companies to provide services over the internet that are a quantum leap ahead of today's static and relatively unintelligent websites. Large, ungainly and hanging onto my thick specs, I'd leap over a vault with my free hand, landing with a resonant thud on the other side, and I loved it. Rushing for the ground I was forced to leap from the first floor to the concrete, just as the two duelists crashed past me, bringing the rest of the escape with them. Then she leaves the bag on the window sill, visible to the squirrels, taunting them, hoping one of them will take a leap and brain themselves on the glass. I turned on my heel and immediately set off in the direction of the sound, in a straight line so that I had to hop over a wall and leap a few bushes. There were times he'd look at her with genuine tenderness and regret, a look that made her heart leap with hope that things might be repairable after all. Every year thousands of kids make the leap from primary school to high school, leaving the relative comfort zone that comes from knowing the score. The size and volume of forms and the amount of tax law an individual is expected to comprehend courts the risk that tax evasion will see a quantum leap. They have also helped spur a quantum leap forward in assessing and quantifying the root causes and health consequences of war, disaster, and civil conflict. Bratton brought along Maple, elevating him in a single leap from Lieutenant to Deputy Commissioner for Operations. It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics. The D-day landings marked the final and long anticipated leap from England across the Channel to the Continent. So, this morning, when I found him, forlorn, trying to get the project further forward, I determined that a leap in the direction of lateral thinking was called for. The report concludes that to properly address the needs of children in Scotland requires not just money, but a quantum leap in terms of attitudes. It requires a giant leap of faith for us to believe that she is telling the truth. Another common prank was to spin the cannon in the direction of the major, causing him to leap out of the way. After over a year of success, Gidick decided to make the leap into the blogosphere. You think Superman is the only one who can leap tall buildings? Peter Christopherson made the leap to life on the bandstand and became a pioneer in the industrial music genre. Show More Sentences The graphics capabilities of Linux have taken a quantum leap forward! Just finished up a long phone conversation with Bill and Skippy, my friends from Kansas City who are agonizing over whether to make the big leap of moving here to New York. For some time after the Battle of Svolder, there were rumors that Olaf had survived his leap into the sea and had made his way to safety. Tenseness is used to describe the opposition of tense vowels as in leap, suit vs. The first six months have 31 days, the next five have 30 days, and the last month has 29 days in usual years but 30 days in leap years. Complicating matters even further, every few years an extra leap month is added to the Chinese calendar. Some leap to the strains with unapt foot, and make a halting figure in the universal dance. His leap brought him scramblingly down on all fours, out of the truck's way, but on the wrong side of the thoroughfare. It took a leap of faith to believe he made it as a star in Coronation Street. Since 1972, the keepers of the atomic clocks have sporadically added 25 leap seconds. Since the leap second procedure was introduced on January 1, 1972, a total of 25 leap seconds have been needed. Throughout the 80s, leap seconds were added six times, but since 1999, only four leap seconds were added. As a leap year, and with two additional leap seconds added, it was the longest year ever. Each time those added milliseconds approach a full second, scientists add a leap second to atomic clocks. The body, wrapped in many clothes, is borne on a kind of bier, round which men leap wildly and abandonly, trying to touch it. The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence. I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before. He made a leap for the prickliest portion of the cactus, grimacing in half-expectation of a crotchful of needles. Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable. Though they did not know the reason for the dispute, they did not hesitate to leap into the fray. Show More Sentences Some 70 million years after this particular galeaspid swam the oceans, fish made another evolutionary leap when they took to life on land. But merely passing through the first floor was, of course, a giant leap for ghostkind. But if he succeeds in seizing the klipdachs before it has time to leap away, he carries it to a rocky ledge, and slowly tears it to pieces. Because laws represent the restraints of civil freedom, they represent the leap made from humans in the state of nature into civil society. But on the second, we took a leap of faith and gave much of what would normally be given to Californian vendors to UK ones. The dancers feet bounce off the floor and they leap and swirl in patterns that reflect the complex rhythms of the drum beat. It can leap to evade attackers and the skin of its tail is readily detachable and slides off if grasped by a predator. Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface, this being done for various reasons. To avoid underwater threats, it can leap above the surface onto mats of weed. I have no hesitation to say that uroradiology is currently at its prime, well-poised to take another big leap in the future. The Ackers activity centre, in Birmingham, is looking for competitors to leap 20 feet from a tower and conquer the zipwire. If replenishing a healthy muscle stem cell pool facilitates reinnervation and recovery, it would be a significant leap forward. But the electioneering insinuations are a quick and dirty causal leap. I've never seen any treatment that causes such an enormous leap in beta cell replication. The Balkanisation of Britain would undoubtedly be a dangerous leap into the unknown for Scotland. Jumping from one lily pad to another is easier when you leap to a kindred pad in the same pond, industry or occupation. That formula gets rid of just enough extra leap days to keep the calendar in synch with the earth's race around the sun. However, as it would take an entire year of leap days to complete these tasks, I shall dedicate my time to simply finishing off the ones I have already started. He makes a miraculous leap from a chapel and rescues Iseult. Many sturgeon leap completely out the water, usually making a loud splash which can be heard half a mile away on the surface and probably further under water. Show More Sentences But in a BASE jump you leap off a bridge or a building at 300 or 400 feet. My mistimed leap was declared a false start since I leaped before the gun. The religious members of my family believe in God as a leap of faith. He took a leap of faith by publishing his first book independently. For some men, the leap into gayhood was the best thing that ever happened to their lives. For others, they've leaped into a whirlpool of pain, anguish, sorrow and despair. Cassette players were a huge leap forward from reel to reel tape machines. This puts the power of our collective business reliability intelligence directly into a user's Web browser, so a leap of faith is no longer required to make a purchase. There is evidence a disproportionate number of men in prison are left-handed, fueling the leap that left-handedness is related to social deviation. The leap second is actually aimed at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time. Be clamorous and leap all civil bound rather than make unprofited return. Another leap of faith is setting up your own business, and it's one that an increasing number of people have been making out of necessity in recent years, rather than choice. The second weir, beneath Milburngate Bridge, now includes a salmon leap and fish counter, monitoring sea trout and salmon, and is on the site of a former ford. You simply lift your heart to a paean with a tilt in the hat-brim, and leap from misery into merriment with a Rosalind feather in your Juliet cap. In the end, perhaps the practice of prayer effects a quantum leap of its own kind. It takes us, spontaneously and unexplainably, into the realm of spiritual energy. The addition of power from God through connectedness with the Holy Spirit results in a quantum leap in our ability to accomplish the will of God in our daily lives. Pinfold's emotive watercolors, which spread over one and sometimes two pages with occasional small insets, leap out in antiquely bold red, blue and green hues. Kierkegaard saw clearly that faith is not a kind of epistemic Polyfilla that closes the small cracks left by reason, but a mad leap across a chasm devoid of all reason. Examples from Classical Literature The kangaroos, with tails as big as bedposts, and that could leap across Beckey Barnicott's garden at two leaps. The claim-jumper dropped what was left of his burden and went hopping on, acquiring stone bruises with every leap. Then he leapt back again, and his leap brought him to the threshold of the anteroom. Fleas are apterous, walk but little, but leap to a height equal to two hundred times that of their own body. They went together in a great leap off the platform onto the rocks, and rolled in a bright patch of earthlight. Again we take a leap of about twenty years, and alight in the midst of the Revolution. Higson made a leap into the boat, which shoved off just as the drogher, giving a slight roll, sank from sight. And you little maiden, take an old man's warning, and look before you leap, as mayhap I and Jowler may not be anigh next time. I could dart off along that curving expanse of his leg and leap to the ground. It was a contralto voice, of a quality that made his pulses leap. The houses finally leap the wall of Philip Augustus, and scatter joyfully over the plain, without order, and all askew, like runaways. But out of the tail of my eye I saw him crouch, ready to leap. A thousand swords, now rusting in ignoble sloth, shall leap from their scabbards to do battle for your honor against wrong. It had been done in that terrible leap upon the rocky bed of the barranca. She saw him spring over the front seat, leap to the broad rump of the wheeler, and from there gain the waggon. A bloodcurdling yell brought him to his feet with a sudden leap. With his eyes on his bunkie, Terry made a prompt leap downward. It should leap from crag to crag like the chamois of the Alps. His legs were free to leap like an antelope on the mountains, his arms were free to use any gesture or wave any signal, but he could not speak. When I was working on Land Of The Tiger I became interested in jumping spiders, which can leap 100 times their body length. Show More Sentences The livery horse was justifiably reluctant to make that leap out and down the bank. This leap saved him from being stretched unconscious by the sandbag. Will not a young man's heart leap amid these discordant sounds? She saw the sinewy form leap to the shoulder of the lion, hurtling against the leaping beast like a huge, animate battering ram. Then off the East End we saw a big swordfish leap five times. As he made that first wild, electrifying leap he began shooting. It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra seems to leap under the baton of the conductor. I felt a sick swim at the drop of my victory and all the return of my battle, so that the wildness of my veritable leap only served as a great betrayal. Well, sir, I saw your son whipping, and kicking, and knocking that good little pony about shamefully because he would not leap a gate that was too high for him. As if fired by his own words, he took a sort of leap at the ledges of the rock above him, and scaled them with a sudden agility in startling contrast to his general lassitude. The hardships of existence in a rural commune in China during the time of Mao's great leap forward come into view as world-class ballet dancer Li Cunxin traces his life story. The gallery's ground floor is filled with a large video projection, also titled Leap into the Void, 2003, in which Clem literally reenacts Klein's famous leap. Unfortunately, it doesn't require much of an imaginative leap to picture that someday the African elephant could find itself in a similar situation. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of leap? Words that rhyme with leap What is the past tense of leap? What is the plural of leap? What is the adverb for leap? What is the adjective for leap? What is the noun for leap? Translations for leap Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words lean towards lean-tos lean-to leant leans lean on Leap LEAP leaped leaper leap forward leapfrog 4-letter Words Starting With l le lea