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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of leap.

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Examples

  • Her name leaped to his lips before he could stop it.

    The God Hater Bill Myers 2010

  • Herz was born at Besançon, in eastern France, in 1845, which made him forty-seven at the time his name leaped into print.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Herz was born at Besançon, in eastern France, in 1845, which made him forty-seven at the time his name leaped into print.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Lon McFane leaped from the woodpile, countering him in midair.

    The Men of Forty Mile 2010

  • Petty Officer Waddell, without hesitation, leaped from the aircraft and, with intense enemy fire hitting all around him, raced back and forth carrying the wounded and dead to the aircraft.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • The archer stood and pulled an arrow from her quiver, the spearwoman nimbly leaped from the box down onto the field, and one of the ladies got a look of concentration on her face that made him certain she was channeling.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • Living here in California, the tidbit that leaped from the article for me was this:

    The invisibles 2009

  • Puffs of dust leaped from the earth close about the fleeing squirrel, showing the closeness of the misses.

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • Lars Vilks told The Associated Press a man leaped from the front row and head-butted him as he was delivering his lecture at Uppsala University, breaking Vilks 'glasses but leaving him uninjured.

    Muhammad cartoonist 'head-butted' during speech 2010

  • Mayton, without hesitation, leaped from the aircraft and, with intense enemy fire hitting all around him, raced back and forth carrying the wounded and dead to the aircraft.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

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