How to Use spring from in a Sentence

spring from

phrasal verb
Definition of spring fromnext
  • Trees spring from the ancient bedrock And the sprays of leaves fall like chords.
    — Czeslaw Milosz, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Wait, how was he sprung from custody in the first place?
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
  • More than half the impressive growth of the past 70-some years springs from this source.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • If anything, the movie seems to have sprung from the head of a 21st-century teen.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 June 2023
  • Remove the bay leaf and thyme springs from the sautéed mushrooms and discard.
    — Brianna Crane, Axios, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Some of the brightest comedy springs from the same source.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Part Two will show the price of pushing back against the status quo, as well as the hopes that can spring from rebellion.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • When rapper Travis Scott appeared for his brief role in the film, a few excited whoops sprung from the crowd.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Any team could easily win this group, so the even playing field may mean a wild card doesn’t spring from it.
    — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The car was reported stolen that spring from a drug store clerk in East Vancouver.
    — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • At the Maia, there was a sultry spa with outdoor treatment rooms that seemed to spring from the jungle.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • Nor is there any comfort in suggesting that the girl could have sprung from a book of old German fairy tales.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Voting is the spring from which all other rights in our Democracy flow.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Read full article The project is a movement that sprang from an essay penned more than two decades ago.
    — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
  • The play has sharp, savage urges, springing from its sense of injustice.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Still, images of real beauty sprang from between the cracks.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Russek thinks the sandwich might have sprung from the Jewish culinary tradition.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 13 June 2023
  • Some breakers are concerned that the Olympics will strip the soul from the struggle that breaking sprung from and contend that breaking is an art form, not a sport.
    — Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, two bills that had stalled in committee for nearly the whole three-month session sprung from the shadows.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 5 July 2023
  • The piece depicts a thought bubble of bold, cartoonish figures and images springing from a book: A girl sits on top of a pig.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Common colds can spring from all sorts of viruses such as rhinoviruses.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • How about a charming getaway to trigger Cupid's arrow to spring from his bow?
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
  • How about a charming getaway to trigger Cupid's arrow to spring from his bow?
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Scrooge deals with those other spirits, the three that sprang from Dickens's genius.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The cushioning helps absorb the impact of the pavement while also giving a more responsive spring from one stride to the next.
    — Suzie Glassman, Health, 18 June 2024
  • Sign up Thursday’s dispute sprang from the Colorado River.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
  • The village seen in the painting’s foreground sprung from van Gogh’s imagination, as it couldn’t be seen from his window.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • But both meanings of the word spring from that Latin origin and its antecedent, the word privus: the word that begat (among others) the words private, property, and proper.
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • Daughtry spent almost all of 2021 in jail on the felony charge that sprang from that positive marijuana test at birth.
    — Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023

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