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sprung
verb as in jump, skip
Example Sentences
The main organiser of the Falkirk protests is the group Save Our Kids and Our Kids Future, which sprung up in response to Nikzad's crime.
Aidan Toner-Rodgers, 27, sprung to the upper tiers of economics as a graduate student late last year from virtually out of nowhere.
Angelica’s sympathies may have sprung, in part, from her own marital trials.
One of the complaints of Labour MPs about the welfare proposals on which the government was forced to backtrack earlier this year was that they were sprung on them without enough groundwork having been laid.
Veterans, who have provided security at student protests throughout the movement, have been guarding her day and night, while other tents have sprung up nearby.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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