| spring eternal | 3.36 | Hope sprang eternal. | ||
| spring open | 1.65 | A side-door sprang open. | ||
| spring free | 0.46 | The ball sprang free and Amoroso stroked it into the unmanned goal mouth. | ||
| spring full-blown | 0.39 | Complex as it is, it is hard to see how it could have sprung full-blown from the primordial soup. | ||
| spring loose | 0.33 | It was poor coverage in the secondary that enabled the two to spring loose. |