How To Use Leap In A Sentence

Goal conflicts make this socio-economic leap extremely difficult for any individual to absorb.
Fifty years on and technology seems to have leapt on by generations as you see the mushroom shaped cloud of the first nuclear test bomb rising high above the New Mexico desert.
Green styles this sequence like the opening credits of a 1970s cop show, freeze-framing on Chris as he leaps over a fence and zooming the titles across the screen.
But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
You've got to take a leap.

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What's amazing about director Leonard Kastle's style is his ability to leap between camp and genuine moments of terror during the murder scenes.
You've also threatened, or you've also mentioned that my relationship threatens my country and again I find that such a huge leap of illogic.
The band then romp through three road songs that most people would die for to have in their repertoire, each single one would get people leaping about on the dance floor at a college hop.
More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
These reforms are totally untested and will require a leap of faith on the part of teachers.
With rising medical costs growing by leaps and bounds, only the exclusive with mounds of $$$ will beable to afford it. Obama says health care delay is OK 'to get it right'
For those who don't know about Shannon, he was the father of information theory, which in its simplest form means he made possible the leap from telephones and telegraphs to computers.
See how the legs lengthened and jointed themselves, bending beneath the throne as though to leap upward. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Marx said that the commodity exchange process thrilling leap from zero to include asset to the propertied people from the process is also facing such thrilling leap.
But the splinter of the self that consistently emerges as the common enemy of the true and the good alike is the will, always seeking to overleap its own bounds.
The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
Carpenter scrambled out of the pocket, pulled up at the line of scrimmage and shoveled the ball to Thompson, who outleaped two defenders under the goal post. USATODAY.com
The fear rose as the flames were rekindled and leapt higher… and the impulse to fight took over when Mhyra reached for Tovon.
Both as a pointer to the future and as a spectacle in its own right, the Championships have produced a quality of football that had at least one viewer occasionally leaping from his armchair to applaud the action.
Olson has a magnetism that leaps across the footlights.
When we gave Eli his big contract, we needed him to go from above-average/pretty good to very good, and to make the leap from a steward of a good offense to someone who could carry the offense by himself. Greg Hanlon: Ungiantlike: Eagles 45 - Giants 38
At least two cars rammed Mr Ahmed's Rover before he leapt out and fled, only to be caught on the roundabout, the court heard.
Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering. A PIECE OF STEAK
The dog made a leap over the fence.
We can ourselves bear witness to the "hardness of the pavement" below, which Captain Wentworth feared would cause "too great a jar" when he urged the young lady to desist from the fatal leap. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
Tara of Helium saw it coming and leaped for the tree toward which she had been moving, and the banth realized her intention and redoubled his speed. The Chessmen of Mars
He listened intently, jabbed furiously three or four times at the transmitting key, then leapt to his feet, tearing his headphones off. THE LONELY SEA
He suddenly leapt up and made a break for the door.
While she brings experience and sagacity, such a slim volume on such large topic demands a few leaps of faith, notwithstanding the appended 56 pages of interesting notes and comments.
And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
And he leaped into the air while he was still quite a few feet away from his opponent. The Sun
As I turned the page his picture leapt out at me.
Seconds later he'd leapt into car with the kids, his bare torso on some one's lap on the front seat.
Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
One name seemed to leap off the page from the list of candidates.
Just over 25 years later, the release of The Jazz Singer marked the advent of sound in the form of feature-length talkies, and film took an enormous leap in a new direction.
When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
We're definitely moving in a positive direction, but each time we make a leap to a new level of functionality, things get more complicated and fractured and difficult for a while.
leaped up with surprising agility
We should leap at this money-making opportunity.
In the second place, he invented fishnets, a cruel device whereby innocent fish leap weeping to your frying pans.
Thinking it was Jude, she leapt up and streaked across the room.
Today we get another issue about a bug which could not detect a leap year (what immatureness by Microsoft). Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
In that area the sparks were not traveling on the netlike lines, but leaping randomly into the grayness and disappearing. The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
All of the artillerists survived the leap into the water. Archive 2008-07-01
Jill's making excellent progress; she's coming along in leaps and bounds.
Airs of bygone times accompany farandoles around the flames over which the boldest leap with a single bound.
Lawson's head 'leap from its halse though it was as big as a haystack.' Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
The men have these huge leaps, and the women are very expressive above the waist.
Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
In each of these Leapor takes aim at that object of Scriblerian mockery, the beau.
Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see.
The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.
At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions.
At 193 centimetres, with a huge leap and a booming kick, it was believed that the young star would slot neatly into a key forward post with the Blues.
It is already obvious that all four American systems have leapfrogged over the European versions.
If the team wants to progress and make leaps forward then I will be very happy to keep working on the project.
In 2002, when Sullivan was 15, things took what seemed to be a queen-size leap forward - an A&R rep from Jive Records caught one of Sullivan's Lily performances, which led to the label signing the then-sophomore to a deal. Undefined
If we leap far enough, all the genes will be copies of one single gene in our ancestral population.
All the features missing in the original is still missing in the 2nd itineration so it’s not like Apple is making leaps and bounds here. Microsoft Exec: 6.9 million iPhone 3Gs? Pfft, so what? « Boy Genius Report
For thys same mã dyd say, that a woman dyd apere to hym, in hys sleape, after a maruelouse fashion, which shold gyue hym a cuppe to drynke apon. The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion
He felt his heart leap, the pieces falling into place, his eyes already searching the framed map on the wall across the corridor. AMAGANSETT
Quickly, he leapt from bed and pushed a large bureau against the bathroom door.
You see people leaping out of the way as some great wad of canvas comes hurtling towards them.
Only with an instrument like Ahrens's cannon could they leap directly into the pressure range of the core.
This victory allowed them to leapfrog Hibs and move back into third place in the league.
Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation. Indiana
The "hup" was rather an exclamation of necessity than of delight, inasmuch as that it was caused by Davie coming suddenly down flat on the ice in the act of vainly attempting to go leap-frog over Mivins's head. The World of Ice
He heard footsteps approaching, and drove his spurs so fiercely into the roan as to force a surprised groan from the animal as it leaped forward. War
‘Oh God,’ I spluttered, as I leapt to my feet and rushed to the bathroom.
According to the Gregorian rule of intercalation, therefore, every year of which the number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the centurial years, which are only leap years when divisible by four after omitting the two ciphers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
And two more points over an indifferent Brods side would see them leapfrog the visitors and move within touching distance of leaders Bridlington and York.
Suddenly, a lick of flame leapt from the tip of the staff.
The dog is leaping at him.
Then the You-Know-What Hits the Fan: The marlin leaps out of the water — almost as if to see where the angler is — then it suddenly tail-walks straight to the cockpit and knocks Schultz out of the fighting chair with 500 pounds of fury. Video Gallery: When Animals Attack
Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
They've made a great leap forward with their road building in the last few years.
A timid or cowardly person would never take that leap.
But motorists may wonder why the price of petrol leaps up so quickly when the crude oil it comes from was sold when the price was much lower.
The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers.
A mighty swipe had knocked the plump grey catnip mouse out of the bag and Ackroyd leaped for it with a hunting cry. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
You can't make massive leaps forward unless you think that way. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, I loved Somewhere in Time in its day ... and Time and Again ... and Quantum Leap and Voyager and, you know, that show with the weirdly dressed fellow blipping about in a 1960's Police Box. RTD = Deceptively Playful
Whether it'll be able to make a leap from a borderline NCAA team to a national contender -- as State fans thought might happen this season -- requires yet another stretch of the imagination. Southeastern Conference
The chinkara scattered into the scrub as we approached but the blackbuck kept appearing and reappearing, leaping across our path as we drove through the desert.
As she perched on the blanket and started to unlace her boots, she remembered what the constable had said and leapt to her feet. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
He will have to spend hours before his leap inhaling pure oxygen to dispel any traces of nitrogen from his blood due to the thinness of the air at 40,000 m.
It takes a lot of calculating to sing a role as challenging as Butterfly, but in Naglestad's case the calculation was sometimes visible enough to dull the dramatic edge: a pause before a high note, a slightly too-deliberate leap into fortissimo in "Un bel di. Anne Midgette reviews Washington National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'
Barons' example did not leap out at me at first.
Syvil leapt out of the back seat, and gave him a hug.
You experience no little leap of the heart upon remembering it's parked outside. Times, Sunday Times
She often rocks, sways, twirls, jumps, climbs, leaps, gyrates and gets into upside-down positions.
When she tried to look at anything else, the imperfections and the failings leapt out at her, the single thread unravelling in the otherwise perfect tapestry.
But why, she wondered, her thoughts leaping off at a tangent, had that balding, thick-set man seemed familiar? LAST SHOT
Ten minutes later, while attempting to spread peanut butter on crispbread, the packet leaped off the shelf and a thousand wholemeal arrows hailed down on me.
He has such explosive leaping ability he can block anyone's shot.
Admitting that the sharper declivity of the Kanab would enhance its power of corrasion, nevertheless we should expect to see it approach the Grand Canyon by leaps and bounds, like the The Romance of the Colorado River
He made sure he wasn't being watched and leaped over the veranda, landing with a soft thud on the mossy ground.
His pulse leaped and her name hovered on his lips. The Hostage Bride
To assume that gun shows and gun ownership are highly correlated is no great leap of logic.
Elf is a charmingly daffy movie that feels like a leap back in time to more genuinely heart-warming Christmas fare.
Don't be so nervous?anyone would think I was about to leap on you.
After weeks and weeks of blurred vision and of holding books and paper at arm's length, the whole world, near and far, leapt into sharp focus once more.
It didn't hurt either that all the art showed her leaping out over futuristic cityscapes with gun drawn. Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: Anna Mercury | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
If there's anything in the company manual that doesn't leap out at you, feel free to give me a tinkle.
His crunching forehand winner on the last point sent him on a joyous, leaping celebration, and with lucrative reason. Times, Sunday Times
Rigg leapt to his feet and let out a boyish, privick, unprincely hoot of happiness. Pathfinder
If we leap far enough, all the genes will be copies of one single gene in our ancestral population.
Wholesale gas prices leapt fivefold over the past few weeks and wholesale electricity prices have increased 150 per cent as a result.
The cat leapt from the chair.
The stats cant leap to his defence either.
In fact, what truly prevents Modi from taking the grand leap of his imagination — that is, remaking Gujarat into a kind of antiseptic global entrepôt, like Singapore and Dubai — is the ball-and-chain reality of the Indian landscape itself. India’s New Face
He sleeps curled up in dark corners and his movements consist largely of prowls and leaps.
Having just completed an audacious leap from aircraft into the jaws of death, five hundred feet above Munsan-ni, against a numerically superior and fanatical force, we were ready to return to K-2 Airstrip at Taegu. Lafayette Keaton
With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring.
Sotirios Kyrgiakos, on for the injured Carragher, tried to outjump Crouch but mistimed his leap. Tottenham Hotspur's speed takes them past Liverpool in home straight
So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
She clacked her spoon back onto the tray, so that a tiny glop of porridge leapt from it. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
Others, though, have leapt to his defence, claiming the gainsayers just don't get it.
Leaphorn put his thumb against the exposed cambium layer and showed it to McKee. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
The downhills offer little relief, as long leaping strides will send your quads into convulsions.
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.
Pelosi descended to the floor of the House, where a saddle-shoed grandson, Paul Vos, leapt into her arms. Boehner Cries As He Moves To Speakership
Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
A frog leaps off the bank into a shallow pond just as a hummingbird pauses for nectar from a flaming red salvia plant.
Some surprisingly inventive puzzles are included amid the expertly handled robot blasting and leaping around with a jetpack. Times, Sunday Times
The number of fatal road accidents in North Yorkshire leapt dramatically last year, according to new figures.
The dog leaped away without a sound; the man, raising his voice a little, said with a slow laugh, ‘Look at that wretched cur,’ and directly afterwards we became separated by a lot of people pushing in.
Six minutes into the half, Allback outleaped Beckham for Linderoth's corner, knocking the ball back toward the goal and over England goalie Paul Robinson to tie it. USATODAY.com - England claims Group B with 2-2 draw vs. Sweden
Still, it's important to have real scientists getting the word out, explaining results, not letting popularizers dumb it down, and not letting people leap to conclusions.
Denver took over at its 44 and Plummer lofted a jump ball to Javon Walker, who outleaped cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and came down at the Raiders 2 for a 54-yard gain. USATODAY.com - Football - Oakland vs. Denver
Thz AP, an hawt chokklit mite halp me sleap – need awl teh halp Ai can get! Origin of species - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
These valuations have opened an abyss between person and person over which an Achilles of free thought could not leap, shutter how he may.
With the asymmetric, twisting, flailing impetus of Petronio's signature style dialled right up, they often appear to be battling the elements: they're hurled across the stage in whirling, lop-sided turns or jagged leaps. Stephen Petronio Company – review
Leapor's willingness to make jokes at her own expense is one of the admirable qualities of her work.
The following day the front page of your Career section featured a photo of a high-rise building superimposed with an image of a leaping man. Times, Sunday Times
You leap up and pull one of the startled men into the coffin until you're ready for him.
a "footpad" might leap upon and slay him; when wild beasts roamed the forest and the jungles, and there were savage men, and countries yet unexplored. The Lost Continent
It would mean a huge leap forward in my career. The Sun
We felt we were leaping into the unknown. The Sun
Pairs of male lance-tailed manakins perform complex dances of ‘leapfrog’ stunts and flight displays to woo interested females.
He leapt out of his seat when he saw the rat.
You miss the honesty and imaginative leaps when you return to adult theatre. Times, Sunday Times
If not, some franchise will have to take a leap of faith.
Then the administration cancelled an agreement requiring automobile companies to make the leap to more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Mary Leapor was an only child, but she grew up surrounded by a large extended family.
I'm so glad I brought my walking pole, it's great for measuring bog depth before you leap in, my new boots have been well and truly christened now.
Our music-hall performers have invented a kind of clowning peculiar to this country, in which kicking and leaping are also a part of the business. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
the footpads leaping from the darkness and Colum's cold despatch of two of them. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Every significant new publishing phenomenon has been midwifed by a great leap forward in printing technology.
He beached the boat and the children leapt out to explore.
While I'd been by myself, as I say, I'd even been thinking in Pushtu, but here I had to hold on tight and remember what I was meant to be - for one thing, I wasn't used to being addressed in familiar terms by native soldiers, much less ordered about by an officious naik* (* Corporal.) who'd normally have leaped to attention if I'd so much as looked in his direction. Fiancée
Now get ready for another radical and rather unsettling leap in video games technology: thought control. Times, Sunday Times
He leaped onto an outcropping that was surrounded by deep pools of briny water. End of Time
Suddenly, the feeble figure on the bed leapt up with a balletic movement, and, clutching its stomach, sprinted towards the toilet.
But he refused the will and the heart, and every time, when he was unable at the beginning to leap sideways out of the inclined trough, he fell grievously from the inside of the loop, bruising and injuring himself. CHAPTER XXVI
We are not going to take a great leap into the unknown. The Sun
He leapt to his feet and came pattering over to me, followed closely by Chestnut.
But our champagne coupes runnethed over when the taut-bodied café-crème-skinned new Josephine Baker, a.k.a. Brian Scott Bagley, leapt onto and around the stage in his J.B. wig and skirt made of a string of artificial bananas, as Ms. Baker once had in her famous Danse Sauvage. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)
POP/ROCK: St. Vincent, "Strange Mercy" 4AD Annie Clark, who records under the name St. Vincent, took a giant leap on her second album, the 2009 release "Actor. StarTribune.com rss feed
leaped agilely from roof to roof
Mr. O'Brien makes a brave leap in the dark and lands with a resounding thud.
Stair soothed the dog with one hand, for he could hear his heart thump in short laboured leaps as if after a long pursuit of a dog-fox on the hillside. Patsy
Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
To pay it off in just five years, the monthly repayment leaps to £ 1, 411.
You would think the dog would have leapt to the defense of his master - nope.
I watch her leap from rock to earth, my muscles trembling, sated in some unwholesome way. MOON PASSAGE
The earth completes 366 rotations about its axis in every leap year.
He cleared the fence in one leap.
And you leaped to meet it; and you met it; and turning in an instant on the hand you had licked and beslavered, as only such hounds can, you strengthened, and confirmed, and justified me in my scheme. ' Martin Chuzzlewit
Her health has improved in leaps and bounds.
All this in a few seconds and as suddenly as it started it finished and I leapt out of bed, grabbing my glasses and running into the hallway, more adrenalised than scared.
alleluia;" they clapped their hands, leaped up, fell down, clasped each other in their free arms, cried, laughed, and went to and fro, tossing upward their unfettered hands; but high above the whole there was a mighty sound which ever and anon swelled up; it was the utterings in broken negro dialect of gratitude to God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The best way to approach them therefore is to leap directly into light, good-humoured conversation and make them laugh.
The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark.
Is the "microblog" Internet phenomenon the next leap forward or just a tweeting waste of time? Houston Press | Complete Issue
The athletic vizsla leapt onto the year's top 10 for Chicago, just as in 2007 and 2003. Labradors fetch top dog honor
While the others were leaping around in Union Jack mini-dresses or leopardskin catsuits, flashing tattoos and tongue studs, she was usually lurking in the background.
With just the simplest physical language, they found a way to overleap logic and build an absurd world that makes a brand new kind of sense.
Designed to handle shared medium-access or point-to-point connections, Ethernet has recently taken a well-publicized leap into metro networking.
does not desire to be able to leap a thousand miles, can only hope that day forward.
Of the development type of abrupt change gradual advance, and leap over, the development type of gradual advance is the best choice.
One of these days someone was going to call his bluff and leap over that desk to clock him one.
China one fifth of humanity braked its population growth, made a quantum leap from agrarian Marxism to industrial mercantilism, and thrived--largely because the U.S. was so open to being the "designated driver" of its export-centered growth strategy during this period. Ian Fletcher: Free Trade Isn't Helping World Poverty
Charles tumbled out of the room, and leaped to his feet.
You think Superman is the only one who can leap tall buildings?
Catherine leapt to her feet as the sounds of footsteps drew nearer.
He gave me a nasty nip to the ear and I leaped away.
As a result, the visiting side leapfrogged their opponents to move second in the table.
The matches against Scotland and versus Italy, in two weeks' time, are most important for Argentina, as they can be leapfrogged in the IRB rankings by the Scots.
If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow.
the company still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay huge dividends
IV. iii.148 (410,8) [How will he triumph, leap, and laugh at it?] [W: geap] To _leap_ is to _exult_, to skip for joy. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Should he clinch victory today, he would leapfrog the Belgian as the most successful driver in the world's most famous endurance race with seven wins.
The bow-string twanged, the arrow leaped upward, and Broken-Tooth, uttering a terrible scream, fell off the branch. CHAPTER VII
I could imagine children leaping up and down while their parents lit up the crackers on rooftops.
Consider him: at slow or fast-medium, his approach never varied; two short walking paces, six running strides and a four-foot leap.
But her gravelly voice suddenly leapt with glee when Allen brought out an old, blue hard-sided suitcase.

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