Sentence examples for sparked things from inspiring English sources

Steven Spielberg sparked things up in the early 1990s with "Tiny Toons Adventures," a series in which new characters interacted with the originals.

"The GAO report really sparked things," says Andy Buchsbaum, director of the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes Natural Resource Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a member of three of the strategy teams.

Land lines can spark things off (think of the dead-of-night call that startles Quinn in Paul Auster's "City of Glass"), but then the action has to get moving.

One of the newcomers since last year – the striker Lacina Traoré of Anzhi Makhachkala – was excellent in that match but one of the team's age-old attitude problems persists: Ivory Coast's lack of success in recent years has been partially down to a vaguely Manchester City-esque tendency to play ponderously by numbers and wait for one of their gifted individual to spark things up.

Like time is composed of strands that run alongside each other, rather than one straight line, and that every now and then those strands touch or cross over for just a moment and the connection can spark things that change the course of a life.

That doesn't mean that monogamists shouldn't stay on their toes in a relationship and try, whenever possible, to spark things up.

In its review, Rolling Stone said: "Late in the film, a real actor, Michael Sheen, shows up as the mind-reading Aro, of the Italian Volturi vampires, and sparks things up.

"I am suggesting there has been a hysteria whipped up by the press, sparked by things written in the Sun and the Daily Mail and the other newspapers who ran screaming double-page spreads 'these people are coming here to steal from you'.

The power button never sparked the thing to life, exactly, but I felt a visceral thrill of possibility with each new installation of stone.

It seems reasonable to me that if people could communicate even at the level of scientist to scientist, more freely, more articulately, it might spark more things.

"The new owner can only spark good things for this club and I hear they are trying to buy back the ground which will be great.