Explore Spur through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like goad or prod. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Spur in a sentence
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Spur meaning
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
Synonyms of Spur
Using Spur
- The main meaning on this page is: A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. | A jab given with the spurs. | Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- Useful related words include: goad, prod, encourage, gad.
- In the example corpus, spur often appears in combinations such as: to spur, spur the, will spur.
Context around Spur
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 16 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spur
- In this selection, "spur" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, flying, include, ranches, length, infrastructure and corporation stand out and add context to how "spur" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an unmarked spur to the and bentley flying spur with his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spur" sits close to words such as ceremonial, ch and curtain, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spur
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Child care businesses also spur economic development in their communities. (10 words)
A convincing break of it could spur a move toward the CAD.1.35 area. (15 words)
As you traverse the meadow, watch for an unmarked spur to the left that leads to the quarry. (18 words)
Sometimes the vein will actually pass tangent to the notch, but often it will pass by at a small distance, and when that happens a spur vein (occasionally a pair of such spur veins) branches off and joins the leaf margin at the deepest point of the notch. (48 words)
Selection from pollinator shifts is suggested to have driven these changes in nectar spur length. citation Interestingly, it was shown that this amazing spur length diversity is achieved solely through changing cell shape, not cell number or cell size. (39 words)
Ahead of its eventual move to becoming an all-electric marque by 2030, has unveiled four special edition versions of the Flying Spur, Continental GT, Continental GTC and Bentayga that farewells the long-serving 6.0 TSI W12 engine. (39 words)
But apart from the usual gamesmanship, your Eyewitness hopes this LGE – in the midst of our oil-fuelled development trajectory – will at long last spur movement towards the promised raison d’etre of local government: empowering the people! (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Spur Corporation’s eight restaurant brands include Spur Steak Ranches, Spur Grill & Go, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, RocoMamas, The Hussar Grill, Casa Bella, Nikos Coalgrill Greek, and John Dory’s Fish, Grill, Sushi.
A: West Ridge; B: West Face; C: Southwest Pillar; D: South Face; E: South-southeast Spur; F: Abruzzi Spur There are a number of routes on K2, of somewhat different character, but they all share some key difficulties.
Selection from pollinator shifts is suggested to have driven these changes in nectar spur length. citation Interestingly, it was shown that this amazing spur length diversity is achieved solely through changing cell shape, not cell number or cell size.
Sometimes the vein will actually pass tangent to the notch, but often it will pass by at a small distance, and when that happens a spur vein (occasionally a pair of such spur veins) branches off and joins the leaf margin at the deepest point of the notch.
A convincing break of it could spur a move toward the CAD.1.35 area.
After a decade in which the Coalition ran the arts down and sometimes traduced them as the playground of left-wing cultural elites, Burke has a chance to spur a renaissance of sorts.
A great-grandfather who four years ago was told he only had months to live used the devastating news to spur him on to finish a memoir - more than two decades after he started it.
Ahead of its eventual move to becoming an all-electric marque by 2030, has unveiled four special edition versions of the Flying Spur, Continental GT, Continental GTC and Bentayga that farewells the long-serving 6.0 TSI W12 engine.
All of these extras come at a premium over the standard Flying Spur, pushing its asking price north of $260,000.
A major events centre could spur new residential development and bring amenities that previously didn’t exist in an area first built primarily to cater to public servants, he says.
A motorist who plowed into the Canadian border sparking terror fears was a New York businessman driving a $300,000 Bentley 'Flying Spur' with his wife in the passenger seat, it has emerged.
And the six-month sales push will also spur on carmakers to lower the cost of EVs via subsidies and discounts.
And yet you might not be able to resist purchasing a membership or snapping up something on the spur of the moment.
As part of the contract, USC purchased a drawing of Sir Big Spur from Stephen Malkoff, an artist from Alabama.
As such, world leaders will gather with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to advance new ideas, raise new pledges of support, and spur delivery on agreed commitments, through the Doha Programme of Action.
As you traverse the meadow, watch for an unmarked spur to the left that leads to the quarry.
But apart from the usual gamesmanship, your Eyewitness hopes this LGE – in the midst of our oil-fuelled development trajectory – will at long last spur movement towards the promised raison d’etre of local government: empowering the people!
But with China’s debt burden nearly three times its gross domestic product, there will be limited scope to spur infrastructure spending, a playbook Beijing has used to counter economic downturns since the 2008-09 crisis.
Child care businesses also spur economic development in their communities.
China is set to approve slightly more than 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) in additional sovereign debt issuance on Tuesday as Beijing steps up its efforts to spur infrastructure spending and encourage economic growth, three sources told Reuters.
Common combinations with spur
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to spur 66×
- spur the 22×
- will spur 14×
- and spur 13×
- spur of 10×
- could spur 9×
- the spur 9×
- spur economic 8×
- spur growth 7×
- spur more 6×