Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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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.