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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181. The leap year proposal ceremony was conducted near the player's entrance by Ayresome Park disc jockey Mark Page.
182. Men, on the other hand, might leap higher, suspend themselves longer, and whirl faster.
183. Yet some writers do make the leap out of the isolation of the self.
184. For this the Middle East needs a leap of faith.
185. Like lemmings(http://sentencedict.com/leap.html), we raced each other to leap over the cliff.
186. He was like a large, beautiful cat, poised and motionless, but prepared to leap.
187. His spirits, which had dropped at her last words, rose with an irrational leap.
188. The Romans divided the year into 12 months and added an extra day to February in Leap Years.
189. Often they were forced to leap blindly into ravines five or ten feet deep.
190. My heart did not leap with joy[Sentencedict.com], it turned cold with panic.
191. Although flying fish leap out of the water they do not porpoise but glide, using their pectoral fins as aerodynamic surfaces.
192. In his haste to leap out of the way Vincent dropped and broke his paintbox.
193. A woman points one way but I see a man with a bulge in his coat and I leap on him.
194. He even thanked Ellen for this new, sudden, unexpected leap into maturity.
195. In the Teeming-Pit, brilliant yellow flames leap from a steel furnace.
196. Unisys uses this never-before-released measure to express the technological leap it believes Pentium represents.
197. A reconvened multi-party constitutional conference early next month is expected to leap these hurdles quickly.
198. Nanny would normally leap on such a gift like a cat on a feather.
199. They tried to leap over the sandbags, but were too slow.
200. In one leap, that acquisition made Northern Britain's biggest milkman, with approaching a quarter of the market.
201. You expect robbers to leap out at you or murders in the dark or prostitution up the lanes.
202. If the man does not leap in, the Adlerian can again claim support for his theory.
203. Firecracker, already in his pajamas, took a running leap and hurtled into us.
204. Leap on to the ledge and then the door, and finally the plant pot.
205. Barons' example did not leap out at me at first.
206. It seems odd that this extra day should suddenly appear every Leap Year but there is a good reason.
207. But it's a giant leap for trout, tench, roach, loach, pike, perch and bream.
208. Goal conflicts make this socio-economic leap extremely difficult for any individual to absorb.
209. Bukharin went on, however, to make a leap that did not necessarily follow from his previous line of thought.
210. A short leap and I was down the stairs and half way through the lobby.