How to Use come/spring/leap to mind in a Sentence

come/spring/leap to mind

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  • What does mold look like? When thinking about mold in the home, the image of fuzzy green globs clinging to old bread may come to mind.
    Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Enter Layne as the president’s mistress, Dusty – does the name Stormy come to mind?
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The Monkees in the ’60s are one of the few that come to mind.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The things that come to mind right away are the tomatoes and the steak at Narukiyo.
    Lauren Yoshiko, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2023
  • The breakfast bar and the hot fudge cake likely come to mind.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Tolstoy, Balzac, and George Eliot are a few who come to mind.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Accountable is an antonym of the first words that come to mind.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • How did Cara Delevingne come to mind to direct it in the first place?
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Teams like the Yankees, Phillies, Mets and many others come to mind.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • What are some great stories on the rapper side that come to mind?
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Words like warm and rustic and near Sweetgreen come to mind.
    Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 24 Dec. 2024
  • When most think of California, the oceans and palm trees come to mind.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • Jordan Pope and Glenn Taylor Jr. were two that come to mind.
    oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In thinking about her own time there, there are a few stories that come to mind.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • Of course, there’s plenty of space to add even more perks if anything else should come to mind.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2023
  • These are things that come to mind that really helped us.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Names like Miro Heiskanen and Jake Oettinger come to mind.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And there are some racetracks around here like the Nashville Fairgrounds that come to mind.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • Are there horror comedies that come to mind that have inspired you through the years?
    William Earl, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The structures that people feel comfortable with are the ones that come to mind.
    Todd Gold, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • When the Met Gala dress code has the word garden in it, the most obvious trend to come to mind is florals.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 7 May 2024
  • While this may be true more widely, the Canadian duo come to mind.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • And the villages are quite different from the green fields, fresh air, and idyllic farms that may come to mind.
    Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • What items spring to mind when thinking about Katie Holmes’s fashion sense?
    Alex Kessler, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The easier to remember, the more likely to come to mind.
    Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • For visitors, those frozen frogs just might come to mind when the unhindered wind cuts across the prairie.
    Kerri Westenberg, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • When thinking of the best wine regions in the U.S., hotspots like Napa and Sonoma often come to mind.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
  • These are the images that often come to mind when many people think of wetlands.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2023
  • McDaniels and Nickeil Alexander-Walker are the first ones that come to mind.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Two juniors who know how to put the pressure on quarterbacks come to mind.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023

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