Sentence examples for long leaps from inspiring English sources

Plains viscachas are fast and, when pursued, alternate their running with sharp turns and long leaps.

Both ensembles are only a few long leaps away from klezmer music.

As anatomists can readily see, the heel bones of prosimians are longer than those of anthropoids, giving them leverage for their long leaps.

Similarly, the track "Boogie Woogie," a fast blues shuffle that was in a widely popular vein, is transformed into an astonishing vehicle for Bailey, who steals the show in two solos, one in quadruple time and the other in impossibly long leaps between low and high notes.

Plainly, it will be the business men who, in thought and action, are some long leaps ahead of their more lethargic rivals the business men who are alert, adaptable, resilient, swift to accommodate themselves to the new and vital facts and forces in our contemporary life.

It prefers to move across thin branches, ascending and descending by long leaps.

It was a long leap from Siberian tundra to English soccer.

3 feet isn't a long leap for most people & the ease of it permits a wide range of expression.

It's a long leap from sexual assault to hero worship, but so many people are able to get across that wide chasm.

Still, that would amount to only about $400 a week, a long leap away from the average wage reported by the bureau.

The second movement begins with a pensive piano cadenza, thick with tremulous ostinatos, filigreed passage work, intricate cross-rhythms and, before long, leaping chords.