Sentence examples for capable of leaping from inspiring English sources

He catches the ball away from his body, and he is capable of leaping receptions on passes high, low or away from his body.

All are surface fishes of the open ocean and are capable of leaping or skipping on the surface, sometimes for considerable distances, thus allowing them to escape predators.

In Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (a film about the Chinese artist), his large and elegant marmalade cat is shown to be capable of leaping up and opening doors.

They walk, trot, or gallop on their digits, traveling swiftly when pursued or threatened, and are capable of leaping vertically to 2 metres (6.5 feet) from a standing position.

We see him now puffing out his chest to seem just that little bit larger, a man who legend tells us was once unstoppable, immense, capable of leaping lines of double-decker buses at Flintock fair.

When I visited her on a rainy Saturday afternoon in April, and again the next day, I found her voluble and dramatic, capable of leaping to her feet to illustrate a point, and shouting when she felt the point warranted it — which was often.

Under ideal conditions top contestants are capable of leaps of over 200 metres (656 feet).

The silver carp, capable of spectacular leaping, batter fishermen.

I'm no more capable of that when I'm in struggle-mode than I am of leaping tall buildings in a single bound.

Several of the estimated 10,000 to 14,000 identified species of ant are capable of hopping or leaping, including at least one with a potentially fatal bite.

Honda, an engineering-led company, is capable of big leaps too – you only have to look at its FC-X Clarity hydrogen fuel-cell car for evidence of that – but the CR-V shows the power of steady improvement just about as well as anything else on the road.