Synonym: bound, dive, hop, hurdle, jump, plunge, pounce, spring, vault. Similar words: cheap, take apart, lean, plea, lead, plead, leather, leave. Meaning: [lɪːp] n. 1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards 2. an abrupt transition 3. a sudden and decisive increase 4. the distance leaped (or to be leaped). v. 1. move forward by leaps and bounds 2. pass abruptly from one state or topic to another 3. jump down from an elevated point 4. cause to jump or leap.
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91. Critics also worry that compassionate conservatism is a leap in the dark without any empirical evidence to back it up.
92. Ballet dancers are taught to breathe in before they leap, and to breathe out after they land.
93. Only a complete media illiterate could leap to such a conclusion.
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94. Now they leap to their feet as he runs in.
95. It would need a gigantic and vanishingly improbable leap across genetic hyperspace.
96. The use of the sea lions is a great leap forward in whale-tracking technology, Hurley said.
97. The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark.
98. It is a very short leap from euphoria to despair and back again.
99. These reforms, untested by pilot evaluations, represent a leap of faith.
100. Doing history does require an imaginative leap, and contact with real evidence from the past can often assist in this process.
101. Others, if they have had enough attention, will simply start to struggle and then leap down or move away.
102. He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about[sentencedict.com], trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.
103. Gold shares gained following a leap in the price of gold.
104. But he had worked one hand loose and he made a leap as Jack tugged.
105. Then, from discussing modern urban life, Eliot makes a remarkable leap.
106. Only with an instrument like Ahrens's cannon could they leap directly into the pressure range of the core.
107. The day had been a hummer: a huge leap nearer London.
108. Dismissed properly, they sprang into motion and took the steep stairs in a single leap.
109. Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
110. Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over.
111. The bird-swat includes the same approach, but then ends with an upward leap and a sharp blow with the front foot.
112. To assume that gun shows and gun ownership are highly correlated is no great leap of logic.
113. With a tremendous leap, James managed to catch the ball.
114. It is worth examining certain aspects of Joni's art, in order to understand this leap in skill.
115. It is an opportunity to pack it in, to make our leap from smack to medication, from medication to cleanliness.
116. As they accelerated over the rutted track and down towards the road, Stephen felt a leap and surge of exhilaration.
117. Balance existed to tilt off, floors to leap up from and air to fall or cantilever through.
118. It would take only a minor leap of faith, a moment of transcendence, to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back.
119. In the second place, he invented fishnets, a cruel device whereby innocent fish leap weeping to your frying pans.
120. Avery, still on the raft, prepared to leap into it.