spring to mind

Example Sentences

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And we risk forfeiting the epiphanies that sometimes spring to mind while doing easy, repetitive job functions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Think of Leibovitz, and some legendary photographs spring to mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

Images of sleek, impossibly chic Copenhagen, the capital, might spring to mind.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

If thoughts, feelings or images did spring to mind, participants were to immediately push those ideas out of awareness and return their attention to the reminder.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

Two features of this sound immediately spring to mind when you listen to it.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall