How to Use spring from in a Sentence
spring from
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Wait, how was he sprung from custody in the first place?
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
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More than half the impressive growth of the past 70-some years springs from this source.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
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If anything, the movie seems to have sprung from the head of a 21st-century teen.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 June 2023
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Some of the brightest comedy springs from the same source.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024
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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
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The car was reported stolen that spring from a drug store clerk in East Vancouver.
—Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
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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
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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
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Voting is the spring from which all other rights in our Democracy flow.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
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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
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The play has sharp, savage urges, springing from its sense of injustice.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
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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
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Still, images of real beauty sprang from between the cracks.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
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Russek thinks the sandwich might have sprung from the Jewish culinary tradition.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 13 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Common colds can spring from all sorts of viruses such as rhinoviruses.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
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How about a charming getaway to trigger Cupid's arrow to spring from his bow?
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
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How about a charming getaway to trigger Cupid's arrow to spring from his bow?
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2024
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Meanwhile, Scrooge deals with those other spirits, the three that sprang from Dickens's genius.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
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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
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Sign up Thursday’s dispute sprang from the Colorado River.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
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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
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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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Much of his success sprung from his belief in math as a social activity.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
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Much of Erdős’s success sprang from his belief in math as a social activity.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
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Evolving their feathers over the course of millions and millions of years, these birds have highly specialized fluff, which springs from their faces, torsos and tails.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2023
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But the prospect of a better tomorrow springing from the Gobi feels very real and very close—if only today can first be secured.
—TIME, 14 May 2024
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Watch the passes that Jenni Hermoso makes, and the opportunity that springs from that moment.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 18 Aug. 2023
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