Sentence examples for give a leap from inspiring English sources

This is a complicated hybrid of ideas - play and sketch and satire - with spoof black-and-white footage rushing along at the back of acted scenes, exquisitely performed skits (as the boys reach the end of their rendition of the marital reconciliation scene in Brief Encounter they give a leap of triumphant grief) and swoony musical interludes.

It begins with Nicholas's Christmas Eve arrival in a New York Public Library Children's Room filled with fairy creatures: The Troll gave a leap from the Christmas Tree and landed right beside the Brownie in a corner of the window seat.

Victorious, she gives a great leap and a shout.

"[The tiger] quickly flung my father on his back and gave a giant leap before disappearing into the forest".

The Negro boy, his task done, gave a little leap of relief...and in just three strides was back in his seat.

His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire; his heart, which had been fluttering faintly, gave a great leap, trying to force itself out at his mouth.

He was still placing the crown on his head when Sad Face gave a tremendous leap, smashing through yet another gigantic stained glass window on his way out.

This situation could change given a quantum leap in sequencing technology that would allow a much larger number of genomes to be analyzed and thereby provide accurate estimates of low-frequency polymorphisms.