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    springy example sentences

    springy


    1. The glass probably held over a half gallon, the wooden legs were six inches high and it was a wide-mouth with a thin but springy clip-down stopper


    2. Tentatively, he reached out with one foot and tried the ground … it was firm, springy almost


    3. They are just teasing, as springy inspired kitten


    4. and how it provides its springy behavior


    5. Ancient hills covered with springy heath promised grand views so I climbed


    6. After hoisting themselves up, the young men collapsed onto a springy floor of woven palm fronds


    7. The rested dough is light and springy, less resistant


    8. Robert assembled the tent, one of those masterpieces of springy steel which, once released, form of their own accord into an igloo, complete with ground-sheet and zip-up entrance


    9. The springy sward gave no sign of footprint


    10. There was no mistaking that tall brown figure with its springy step

    11. Nevertheless he went warily, sword in hand, his restless eyes combing the shadows from side to side, his springy tread making no sound on the sward


    12. If one had observed him closely, it might have seemed that his step was somewhat too springy and sure, his carriage somewhat too erect and confident for a lowly fisherman


    13. The Hologis suit creates a springy sensation whenever I move, and sensors embedded in the suit give it a rumpled texture


    14. Even the way he moved seemed so recognizable, slightly springy in his gait, with confidence in each step


    15. humming birds on springy wires


    16. A heavy blow landed on the back of my neck, causing a painful springy sensation to travel up to my head


    17. A springy sensation travelled up to my knee, and I flexed it, making sure it wouldn’t seize up


    18. The new oatmeal-coloured carpet was still springy under his toes


    19. Even with its use of obviously primitive recording technology, “Don’t Be Cruel” has a springy step


    20. Oh, the magnificence of marriage, thought Ingeborg, beating her hands together, the splendour of its liberations! She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading

    21. Every now and then, for sheer delight in these things, she would throw herself down on the springy delicious carpet of whortleberries and lie still watching the blue-green tops of the pine-trees delicately swaying backwards and forwards far away over her head against the serene northern sky


    22. Bake 45 minutes until browned and springy to the touch


    23. He felt around the surface that he had landed on and it was springy and soft, with the texture of cotton wool


    24. He walked towards us with a smile, with his springy step and swinging arms, with the confidence of wealth


    25. I left the airport with a springy step


    26. The little alien extricated itself from the pipes and with its springy gait led Yaf/Shap down a maze of corridors


    27. of the water and she collapsed onto the springy turf, spluttering


    28. off the snow that rested on the springy pine branches


    29. ’ She thought he looked half a sleep with his head in his hands and his springy black curl hanging over this face


    30. His step had become springy (and no wonder, with 20 pounds less to carry

    31. fullness of soft springy flesh, that yielding sufficiently, as it does, to


    32. springy to the touch, quivered again under the pressure; and now I had


    33. them, and the springy flesh that filled them, thus pitted by force, rose


    34. His springy step never slowed until suddenly, when he was a hundred yards in front of me, he halted, and I saw him throw up his hand with a gesture of grief and despair


    35. But small boys are extremely springy and elastic


    36. This continuation of that grateful stricture which is in us, to the men, the very jet of their pleasure, I owed, it seems, to a happy habit of body, juicy, plump and furnished, towards the texture of those parts, with a fullness of soft springy flesh, that yielding sufficiently, as it does, to almost any distension soon


    37. We had now reached the closest point of union; but when he beckened to come on the fiercer, as if I had ben actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury, I twist my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quivered again under the pressure; and now I had him every way encircled and begirt; and having drawn him home to me, I kept him fast there, as if I had sought to unite bodies with him at that point


    38. springy flesh that filled them, thus pitted by force, rose again reboundingly with his hand, and on the instant defaced the pressure: and alike indeed was the consistence of all those parts of her body throughout, where the fulness of flesh compacts and constitutes all that fine firmness which the touch is so highly attached to


    39. When Payton Jordan first saw Louie again, he was reassured by his old friend’s familiar impish grin and the springy cadence of his speech


    40. She gave him her hand, and with her rapid, springy step she passed by the porter and vanished into the carriage

    41. He dropped his legs, crossed one leg over the other knee, and taking it in his hand, felt the springy muscle of the calf, where it had been grazed the day before by his fall, and leaning back he drew several deep breaths


    42. With fresh force, he felt conscious of himself from the springy motions of his legs to the movements of his lungs as he breathed, and something set his lips twitching


    43. The dangers of the night which had driven Scarlett into panic had He came up the walk with the springy stride of a savage and his fine head was carried affected him like an intoxicant


    44. He sounds springy, boyish, the way he always does when he talks to her


    45. There was no tree nor any visible water: it was a country of grass and short springy


    46. 'Maybe,' said the Elf; 'but a heavy boot might leave no print here: the grass is deep and springy


    47. Without hesitation, Quinn put his right hand on the huge mass of springy hair of the male and brought the head to the proper position, twisting it until the neck was bared, and then, closing his eyes, he sank his teeth


    48. A springy shaft, with a spear attached, is held taut above the trail


    49. Tension exerted on the springy shaft requires the uprights holding it to be very firmly set in the ground and the lashings to be strong and secure


    50. It is soft and springy underfoot and may be exposed on the edges of rocky outcrops—looking black and fibrous








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    Synonyms for "springy"

    springy bouncy live lively resilient elastic pliable stretchy youthful stretchable

    "springy" definitions

    elastic; rebounds readily


    (of movements) light and confidently active