Sprang is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sprang meaning
simple past of spring
Using Sprang
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past of spring
- In the example corpus, sprang often appears in combinations such as: sprang up, sprang from, sprang into.
Context around Sprang
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sprang
- In this selection, "sprang" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gain, church, visconti and slowly stand out and add context to how "sprang" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an image sprang from a and and administrators sprang up like. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sprang" sits close to words such as acosta, afar and anterior, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sprang
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
DEI offices and administrators sprang up like mushrooms as evidence of organizational commitment. (13 words)
Then, sprang into action and blocked the company's iMessage service citing security concerns. (14 words)
Musk-Zuckerberg match-up sprang from the professional rivalry between the two social media titans. (15 words)
I had seen these trees many times bowed over by the weight of ice in their small crown-tops, sometimes bending to within 8 or 10 feet of the ground before the ice melted and the trees sprang slowly back to an upright position. (44 words)
I must confess, when pondering what adventures my seven-year-old son and I could get up to over a long weekend (courtesy of two school inset days) a trip to Amsterdam wasn’t somewhere that immediately sprang to mind. (40 words)
Katherine said the society still upholds tenets set by the 13 charter members: The recipients of their generosity would realize it sprang from a Christian spirit, and no one individual would be identified with the gift. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
As Monika began to explain how the treatment would feel when it was carried out, as well afterwards, the mantra ‘no pain, no gain’ sprang to mind.
A social movement birthed in liberty, and complemented by the local church, sprang up in Poland and spread like a pandemic, toppling communist dictators, one by one.
But the Milan of the film was some way from the one Visconti sprang from, the director being an aristocrat who grew up in the splendid Palazzo Visconti di Modrone.
Done up in the style of Dick Sprang from the 1950s, this Harlequin of Hate prides himself on committing crimes that always end with a punch line.
Homeless encampments sprang up all over the city, including near ’s historic train depot used by thousands of tourists this summer.
I had seen these trees many times bowed over by the weight of ice in their small crown-tops, sometimes bending to within 8 or 10 feet of the ground before the ice melted and the trees sprang slowly back to an upright position.
I must confess, when pondering what adventures my seven-year-old son and I could get up to over a long weekend (courtesy of two school inset days) a trip to Amsterdam wasn’t somewhere that immediately sprang to mind.
Katherine said the society still upholds tenets set by the 13 charter members: The recipients of their generosity would realize it sprang from a Christian spirit, and no one individual would be identified with the gift.
Mr Zapri and his colleagues sprang into action, scouring the campsite in their heavy boots and helmets in search of survivors.
Musk-Zuckerberg match-up sprang from the professional rivalry between the two social media titans.
Police in Florida sprang into action to apprehend what seemed to be a colossal alligator lurking on Treasure Island Beach, only to discover it was an impressive sand sculpture.
Then, sprang into action and blocked the company's iMessage service citing security concerns.
This remote island in the North Atlantic is home to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, so it’s little wonder one of the around sprang up on its shores.
While the issue reportedly sprang up in 2018, Long said that the fungus was not as prevalent when he bought his Lynchburg home in 2020, as the whiskey company was only using two barrel houses.
Almost as quickly as he took the photo, an image sprang from a hand-held printer.
Chinese stocks, iron ore and oil prices dropped further after the country’s central bank sprang a surprise cut in longer-term interest rates, only stoking further worries about the world’s second-largest economy.
DEI offices and administrators sprang up like mushrooms as evidence of organizational commitment.
Despite these challenges, Kingsdown School’s team of teachers and specialist support assistants quickly sprang into action.
Guardiola had promised that his side would learn from their lapses against Sporting in midweek and he sprang a surprise by retaining teenager Jahmai Simpson-Pusey in an untried central defensive partnership alongside Josko Gvardiol.
His artistic freedom, she suspects, also sprang from a lack of any formal training as an apprentice in an artist’s studio.
Common combinations with sprang
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sprang up 75×
- sprang from 28×
- sprang into 26×
- that sprang 15×
- sprang to 6×
- sprang surprise 5×
- they sprang 5×
- community sprang 4×
- which sprang 4×
- it sprang 3×