Pounced (on)

Usage examples of leapt.

In a flood of panic and desperation, I leapt at his leg, got him around the knee, and yanked hard.

He jerked, slammed his head against the bottom of the bed, yelped, drew himself back from the bed, turned to look at me, and all but leapt back over the bed in surprise when he saw me.

My staff, driven by tightly controlled channels of air moving in response to my evocation, leapt across the room and slammed the door shut in front of Donny Wise's nose.

My heart leapt into my throat as the thing tilted up, drove an exploratory pincer down into the upper third of the elevator, then started tearing the hole even larger.

Maybe, if I did it just right, I could catch it as it leapt, minimize the damage that I did to the surrounding scenery.

A scorpion leapt at me, brown and gleaming, and I drew my legs up out of reach of its pincers, just barely.

Parker lurched forward, greasy hair flying, and the three wolves leapt on him.

When we'd arrived, a nude Tera West and five young people, three female and two male, had leapt out of the van, the Alphas hurriedly tumbling out of their robes.

I couldn't see what condition she was in, and both fear and frustration leapt up into me, for her sake.

The loup-garou turned and focused its eyes on me again, but Marcone let out a sharp whistle, and the thing turned toward him, pricking its misshapen ears forward in a weirdly doggy mannerism, before it snarled and leapt upward.

As she came through the trees, I leapt forward and was at her throat before she even realized I was there.

The second one leapt upon Michael and fastened its fangs onto his thigh, ripping and jerking.

Then he spun back to the van, with its dark-tinted windows, and leapt in.

Fire leapt up into the air, forty, fifty feet, and the sudden explosion of it lifted everyone but me up and off the ground, sent wind roaring around us in a gale.

She beckoned sharply at the ground, and one of the nails leapt up to her hand.