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Example sentences for "she sprang"

  • She sprang lightly to the curbstone and stood tapping her little feet against the pavement while Gethryn fumbled about for his fare.

  • She sprang up and held out her hand to Gethryn.

  • That face grew ashen; the eyes had the blank glare of a tiger's; she sprang up to Yvonne and grasped her by the wrists.

  • It seemed to rouse her from slumber: she sprang to the door and opened it, but no one was there.

  • She sprang up, caught the child by the shoulders, and shook her as if in anger.

  • On seeing the two approach, she sprang up, and disappeared with a bound into the house.

  • She sprang up, looking down upon him, as he sat by the fire.

  • She sprang up, and they went along the high path leading to Grasmere and Langdale.

  • As soon as her after-luncheon cigarette was done, she sprang up and began to put on her hat.

  • She sprang up, touched by the hand of her good angel perhaps, and for the last time.

  • She sprang up trembling in every limb, and supporting herself against a table, seized a gilded carafe and poured out a full goblet of wine, which she drank.

  • She sprang up, opened the window, and sat down in the balcony outside, trying to find composure by looking down into the dark, still street.

  • She sprang up as a low knock came to her door, thinking it was he, come to bid her adieu.

  • When finished, she sprang up and looked out of the lattice at the summer night.

  • As she sprang back, frowning, he stopped and stood for an instant, half sinking; then he whirled about and darted out of the door.

  • Finally when she could stand it no more, she sprang up between two of Mrs. Woodward's longest sentences and remarked that it was very late and a long way home, and that she would come again some time.

  • When a few minutes had passed and she heard a carriage outside, she sprang up wildly, with the thought that he might be going.

  • She sprang up suddenly with a very nervous and forced laugh.

  • She sprang up, dropping the ring upon her table, and turned to see Olga in her nightdress, standing in the doorway.

  • The next moment, her woman's instinct prompting her, she sprang forward; and it was she who caught the stricken mother as she fell.

  • But, suddenly aware of him, she sprang up swiftly, with no sign of tears upon her face.

  • She sprang up and looked at herself in the glass; shuddered, turned her back on herself, and sat down again.

  • She sprang out of bed and wrote: "How COULD you do such a brutal thing?

  • Gyp saw the old man quiver; she sprang up and cried: "You brute!

  • With a shudder, she sprang up; the ants had got to her, and she had to pick them off her neck and dress.

  • She sprang up saying: "Yes, here, please.

  • She sprang forward, and bursting into tears, threw her arms round my neck.

  • She sprang at her precious epistles, but I hold them above my head; and then she poured out further frantic entreaties that I would burn them--do anything rather than show them.

  • She sprang to her feet, but being too weak to stand, sank back again.

  • Really, Miss Morley, you are not in a condition to--" She sprang to her feet and stood there trembling.

  • Doctor Herbert Bayliss is--" She sprang to her feet.

  • She sprang to her feet, spread her napkin on the polished floor, then gravely bending double, placed both palms flat on the square of damask, balanced and raised her body until the straight, slim limbs were rigidly pointed toward heaven.

  • She bowed her head in her hands, striving desperately to recollect the circumstances; she sprang to her feet and paced the darkened room, trying to understand.

  • She sprang up, trying to smile, hesitated, then slowly came back to where he was standing and put her arms around his neck.

  • She sprang up, letting the letter drop on the floor, and clung to him.

  • This will kill her," Roger groaned, as she sprang up on the box with the driver.

  • She sprang up like a roe which has been overtaken by the shot of the hunter.

  • She sprang to the door and would have run away, but on the stairs a man caught her and brought her back; and when she looked at him it was King Thrushbeard again.

  • She sprang up and wanted to run away, but whithersoever she turned herself, she was continually held back by thick hedges of thorns through which she could not break.

  • As the sun shone on his hair it glittered and flashed so that the rays fell into the bed-room of the King's daughter, and up she sprang to see what that could be.

  • She sprang to her glass and then from it.

  • She sprang to descend, but with a show of wonder Anna spoke and she halted.

  • She sprang up, faced round, clutched the great gun, and stood staring.

  • She sprang up and began to look about her.

  • She sprang up on her feet, but swayed so that she would have fallen had not Madame caught her.

  • She sprang up straight and lithe, her head poised superbly.

  • As she sprang to the ground again, Pierre spoke.

  • She sprang to her feet with flashing eyes.

  • She shook her head; then, with one of those quick impulses that were a part of her charm, she sprang lightly up and gave him both her hands.

  • She sprang up from the table with a laugh.

  • She sprang up, put on her hat and jacket, and calling for a taxi drove to the London branch of the Nouveau Luxe hotel.

  • She sprang up, tossed about some fashion-papers heaped on a lacquer table, and sank back exhausted by the effort.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she sprang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chicken broth; considerable number; often find; passing through; she desired; she don; she fell; she had never known; she has; she lay; she looked; she might; she might have been; she now; she observed; she reflected; she repeated; she stared; she turned; she wanted; shed abroad; shell fire; shell from; shell holes; shew himself; that sort