spring-loaded

Definitions

Examples

• She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

• This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.

• It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

• Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.

• Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.

• Before we had all fired, Fanning and a dozen of his sharpest men had again loaded, and were by our side.

• This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

• The reveillée of the sleeping Mexicans was the discharge of our two field-pieces loaded with canister.

• It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.

• I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.