How do you use the word "spring" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "spring": Spring will be here before long. I took a cooking class last spring and learned to bake bread.

Spring

/ˈspɹɪŋ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo move or burst forth.

verbTo move or burst forth., To appear.

Sentence Examples

Spring will be here before long.

I took a cooking class last spring and learned to bake bread.

The cat crouched ready to spring.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

jump form bound

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The beautiful flowers will ____ from the ground once the weather warms in April.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The first flowers of ____ began to bloom in the garden as the weather finally started to warm up.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sperǵʰ- (“to hurry”). Cognates * Saterland Frisian springe * West Frisian springe * Dutch springen * German Low German springen * German springen * Danish springe * Swedish springa * Norwegian springe * Faroese springa * Icelandic springa (“to burst, explode”). Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude..." — c. 1540, Livy, translated by John Bellenden, History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125:

"...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 19:25:

"Home I would go, But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping Creditors, Watchfull as Fowlers when their Game will ſpring; […]" — 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

"Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder, To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man? To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 38:25–27:

"Commerce! beneath whose poison-breathing shade No solitary virtue dares to spring, […]" — 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto V”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 61:

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