Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: leaps
IPA transcription: [l'ips]
Usage examples
  • The blood stings. The heart leaps.
  • With three leaps Jim was at her side.
  • Startling leaps over vast gulfs of time
  • This way and that way he went in great leaps.
  • He took two giant leaps. The first landed him upon the edge of the porch.
  • Then, by using all its power, it leaps backwards or forwards in a surprising manner.
  • No wild animal can leap ten yards, and they all make a high trajectory in their leaps.
  • It was a strength which seemed to flow into the road, which carried him forward in long, swinging leaps.
  • The negro population grew by leaps and bounds, until on the eve of the Revolution it amounted to more than half a million.
  • With amazing quickness the animal lunged ahead, paused suddenly, then shot across the plain in a series of leaps and twists.