How to Use come/spring/leap to mind in a Sentence

come/spring/leap to mind

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  • The Monkees in the ’60s are one of the few that come to mind.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The things that come to mind right away are the tomatoes and the steak at Narukiyo.
    Lauren Yoshiko, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2023
  • The breakfast bar and the hot fudge cake likely come to mind.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Tolstoy, Balzac, and George Eliot are a few who come to mind.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Accountable is an antonym of the first words that come to mind.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • How did Cara Delevingne come to mind to direct it in the first place?
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Teams like the Yankees, Phillies, Mets and many others come to mind.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • What are some great stories on the rapper side that come to mind?
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
  • When most think of California, the oceans and palm trees come to mind.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • Jordan Pope and Glenn Taylor Jr. were two that come to mind.
    oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In thinking about her own time there, there are a few stories that come to mind.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • Of course, there’s plenty of space to add even more perks if anything else should come to mind.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
  • These are things that come to mind that really helped us.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Names like Miro Heiskanen and Jake Oettinger come to mind.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And there are some racetracks around here like the Nashville Fairgrounds that come to mind.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • The structures that people feel comfortable with are the ones that come to mind.
    Todd Gold, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • When the Met Gala dress code has the word garden in it, the most obvious trend to come to mind is florals.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 7 May 2024
  • While this may be true more widely, the Canadian duo come to mind.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • And the villages are quite different from the green fields, fresh air, and idyllic farms that may come to mind.
    Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • What items spring to mind when thinking about Katie Holmes’s fashion sense?
    Alex Kessler, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The easier to remember, the more likely to come to mind.
    Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • For visitors, those frozen frogs just might come to mind when the unhindered wind cuts across the prairie.
    Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • When thinking of the best wine regions in the U.S., hotspots like Napa and Sonoma often come to mind.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
  • These are the images that often come to mind when many people think of wetlands.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2023
  • McDaniels and Nickeil Alexander-Walker are the first ones that come to mind.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Two juniors who know how to put the pressure on quarterbacks come to mind.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
  • After entering watch, there are still four words that come to mind: catch, hatch, match and patch.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There are a lot of things that come to mind when contemplating the future of fashion.
    ELLE, 3 May 2023
  • Longevity and freedom from pest problems come to mind first.
    Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Sparse rooms, dotted with hand-hewn wood furniture, is the image that may come to mind when thinking of Swedish design.
    Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 1 Nov. 2024

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