Sentence examples for a kind of spring from inspiring English sources

Instead, the scientists reported in Nature last week, the mantis shrimp uses a kind of spring, a saddlelike structure that is part of its exoskeleton.

To Taste: Celebrating Spring the Catalonian Way A sign of spring in Catalonia is the calçotada, a party featuring calçots, a kind of spring onion.

Or a kind of spring, because it quivered when you flicked it lightly".

Often, this piece comes off as a kind of spring break for orchestra, oboes gone wild; it sounded that way at Juilliard in January, under Anne Manson's direction.

By the time the car crashed into the buffer in the pit (a hydraulic truncheon designed to be a cushion of last resort), a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it, serving as a kind of spring.

He was blessed, among other things, with unusually long legs and a strikingly long Achilles tendon — ten and a quarter inches in length — which acted as a kind of spring, catapulting him high into the air when he planted his foot for a jump.

Some added far-reaching policy proposals to a kind of Christmas list for the Trump era.

The New Yorker, November 29 , 1969P. 50 On a kind of Christmas Day-big flakes blurring everything.

Her proposed ticket with Fillon was spontaneous, "a kind of Christmas present for the prime-minister".

By Marianne Moore The New Yorker, November 29 , 1969P. 50 On a kind of Christmas Day-big flakes blurring everything.

Which, come to think of it, he never had any qualms about modeling as a kind of winter fashion.