spur

How To Use spur In A Sentence

• The exchange continued for a little over a year, until both men became absorbed in other projects, but while it lasted, Mr. Neumeyer says, "we were both sparked into spurts of vivifying and shared creativity. Gorey's Flights of Fancy
• Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
• Try poppies, cornflowers, stocks, love-in-a-mist, cosmos, mignonette, larkspur, honesty, ox-eye daisies, marigolds, phlox, sunflowers, zinnias - whatever takes your fancy.
• Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box.
• The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise.
• Mom also feels spurred on by the thought that someday Charlie will become aware of her career.
• Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.
• These columbines have bell-shaped flowers, spurred petals, and self-coloured tepals.
• Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
• While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?