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How to use the word leaps in a Sentence?

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I see this sport growing by leaps and bounds in India, my debut will be shown live on TV and I hope it inspires the next generation... Our country is changing. Young girls now have a platform for take up any sport.

Ritu Phogat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Brian Froud was doing completely original, wildly strange designs on behalf of the series i think if anybody had been hired to copy Brian Froud style, they never would have made the leaps and peculiar choices that Brian Froud did, and so we really benefited from having Brian Froud -- not just a' Brian Froud look' -- for the series... Brian Froud not only designed all the characters and the world and the movie, but Brian Froud then sat in the Creature Shop and supervised how everything got built to match Brian Froud look.

Lisa Henson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the next 10 years, we expect to begin seeing more objects like' Oumuamua. The LSST will be leaps and bounds beyond any other survey we have in terms of capability to find small interstellar visitors, we may start seeing a new object every year. That's when we'll start to know whether' Oumuamua is weird, or common. If we find 10-20 of these things and' Oumuamua still looks unusual, we'll have to reexamine our explanations.

Matthew Knight

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The company has grown by leaps and bounds over the last three years. I think it has more than doubled in size. ... It's strange, we had a company where three years makes you one of the more tenured people, it's also a company, I think, that's coming to grips with its importance in the world, right ? What started as a fun dorm room project... people have realized it has an incredibly central geopolitical role that we can't ignore. So it is definitely, I think, a more serious company than the one I started at.

Alex Stamos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Emily Dickinson

added by evelyn_c
5 years ago

But Fleetwood's 63 on the final day was virtually flawless. He's come a long way in the last 18 months or so and the combination of his good play and the support he's going to get from the British galleries will stand him in good stead, he hit every green bar one on the final day and his ball - striking has come on leaps and bounds.

Tony Jacklin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Chromebook from the gate has been that just-good-enough for your grandma device, they are still leaps and bounds behind, but this year and next year Google will make massive corrections to close the gap.

Linn Huang

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Ten years ago, we had about 1,400 jets around the world and it's 2,500 today, especially when we look at Asia-Pacific, it's grown by leaps and bounds. Back in 2005, we had about 35 planes in Asia-Pacific and today we've got nearly 300 airplanes.

Steve Cass

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Cruise lines have made quantum leaps when it comes to designing and building ships that incorporate environmentally-friendly practices.

Spencer Brown

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Companies can still offset their costs by leaps and bounds, that's why miners, despite current prices, still want to roll out projects.

Governor Julio Velarde

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think these have been really quite significant changes that we now accept but at the time they were quite significant leaps.

Simon Lewis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

His teachers have done an amazing job, they are focusing on his speech and muscle performance; they focus on word recognition and speech and motor skills. His teachers last year (say he improved by) leaps and bounds, they even attributed the change (to) Groot.

Josh Dunlap

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But I'm optimistic in the sense that humans react -- in the past we have made quantum leaps when we worked together to solve our problems.

Anthony Barnosky

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have the potential of initiating a mass extinction episode which has been unparalleled for 65 million years, but I'm optimistic in the sense that humans react -- in the past we have made quantum leaps when we worked together to solve our problems.

Gerardo Ceballos

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Europe doesn't move in giant leaps. It moves forward, muddling through.

Hendrik Vos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Let every man look before he leaps.

Miguel de Cervantes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

Jerry Coleman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

A. Whitney Griswold

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Charles Kingsley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Linnaeus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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