Sentence examples for about to leap from inspiring English sources

Sterling silver wire was coiled like a Slinky about to leap onto the floor.

He is about to leap again now into Rattigan's Nijinsky, a fascinating new stage drama by Nicholas Wright.

The phrase derives from the French for the cry of a circus acrobat who is about to leap.

This leopard might be about to leap but Salgado looks as calmly back at it as a field of wheat.

He kept both of his knuckly hands on the reception desk, as though he were about to leap over it and charge at the receptionist.

As she walked with her denim purse hanging from her thin shoulder, her legs and hips swayed a little, as if she were about to leap.

I'd love to be able to leap about in the branches screeching – maybe in my back garden, so it wouldn't be so embarrassing for my family.

If the ion channel were expressed in the giant fiber neurons, which control reflexes for escape, the flies could be made to leap about, buzz their wings, and fly.

This three-chord refrain allows McCartney "a bedding... to leap about on vocally", so he ad-libs his vocal performance for the rest of the song.

When asked about his decision to leap to the so-called "second screen," Edelstein told The Wrap, "I wanted to tell a ghost story in a different way because of the way technology was moving". .

Auerbachs plays off this heritage, with an actor dressed as Mephistopheles appearing on Thursdays around 9 30 p.m. to leap about the tables.