spurred
adjective
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Definition of spurred
1
: wearing spurs
2
: having one or more spurs
a spurred violet
Examples of spurred in a Sentence
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The shooting left 17 people dead and spurred national protests from students high school-age and younger. — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, "New Orleans students walkout to honor Columbine shooting victims, call for gun reform," 20 Apr. 2018 Facebook’s lack of responsiveness in removing material that users had flagged spurred lawmakers to act, too. — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, "Is Germany’s bold new law a way to clean up the internet or is it stifling free expression?," 8 Apr. 2018 The tweet went viral and spurred debate on how people feel about the shape of states. — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, "Rich Cordray takes stance on the shape of Ohio: He finds it, well, pleasing," 9 Jan. 2018 The dams, pipelines and roads that these loans built spurred progress. — Landon Thomas Jr., New York Times, "The World Bank Is Remaking Itself as a Creature of Wall Street," 25 Jan. 2018 From the ceiling hang two sparkling white ships, looking like some magical sugar sculptures with spurred outriggers that can both sail through the sky and under the sea. — Siobhan Morrissey, miamiherald, "Eduoard Duval-Carrié’s dreamy duality reveals a dark and somber tale," 13 Oct. 2017 Concern that bump stocks would be outlawed spurred gun enthusiasts to flood retailer websites and secondary markets, much the way traditional gun sales often rise following massacres. — Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg.com, "Bump-Fire Stock Prices Double, Thanks to the NRA," 5 Oct. 2017 Nonetheless, the big show spurred American collectors, such as John Quinn, Walter and Louise Arensberg, Arthur B. Davies and Katherine Dreier, to acquire Brancusi’s work. — William C. Agee, WSJ, "Constantin Brancusi Conquered America," 23 Aug. 2017 The growth signals a reversal from the winter, when worries about China’s growth and investor bets that the Chinese currency would weaken spurred outflows of money, contributing to sell-offs in markets around the world. — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, "China Stanches Flow of Money Out of the Country, Data Suggests," 7 Apr. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spurred.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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