Sentence examples for running leap from inspiring English sources

I take a running leap down the pier — "Ayyyyiii!" — and launch over the water.

The adrenaline surges when I realise this means taking a running leap off a high platform, but I do my best superhero impersonation.

The South African hurtles off the top in a running leap, clearing six feet of wall before leg-pedalling out into the water.

The Australian writer Tony Perrottet's first book to be published in America, ROUTE 66 A.D.: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists (Random House, $25.95), takes a running leap directly into the problem of centuries of tourist saturation.

He favoured garish, towelling outfits of his own design, was known to mount concert platforms at a running leap, and pushed his favourite piano stool round in a wheelbarrow.

The Frankfurter Rundschau daily judged that, although the proudly tactless Charlie Hebdo regularly takes a running leap across the boundaries of good taste, its appearance on the German media scene was to be welcomed.

Gerbils walk and scamper on all four limbs and flee in running leaps when alarmed.

They continued their attempts at running, leaping and spinning as I walked past.

Michael Raye's commissioned score soon propels seven cast members across the stage in running leaps.

Whiten reached the ball, reached up while running, leaped a bit and dropped the ball.

Mr. De Luz and Ms. Fairchild were in the right place for all the fish dives, swoons and the ballerina's running leaps onto the Cavalier's shoulder.