6 sentences with 'spurred'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spurred and other words derived from it.
• « A horse like Josh doesn't need to be spurred; just tap his flanks with your heels. As I did so, I felt my head snap back. »
• « While the memory of immediate post-war rationing and hardship was still fresh, spurred by coordinated government action and Marshall Plan loans, Western European countries were able to leap to ever higher levels of wealth and productivity less than a decade after the end of the war. »
• « Between 1950 and 1953, the two Koreas went to war, obviously, as centuries before, for control of the country, spurred on and aided by the United States and the Soviet Union. The war ended in a stalemate, if that is possible, and the country remained divided in two: the Republic of Korea to the South and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the North. »
• « The events of 1741 in New York City illustrate the racial divide in British America, where panic among whites spurred great violence and repression against the feared slave population. »
• « The transition in the Upper South to the staple crop of wheat, which did not require large numbers of slaves to produce, also spurred manumissions. »