in the beginning

phrase

: at the start

The company was very small in the beginning, but it eventually became a giant corporation.

Examples of in the beginning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Le Sube is the best spot during Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez week, in the beginning of October. — Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Building enough trust to capitalize on his idea took time in the beginning, Millard recalled. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Although Jason and Ann, Greta’s character, are trying to build a bubble in the beginning. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

To start with this question of dehumanization and rehumanization, one of the things that happens in the beginning of a psychoanalytic interview is that the interviewee, the patient, starts off expecting to be less than human. — Orna Guralnik, The New York Review of Books, 4 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for in the beginning

• binning
• dinning
• ginning
• grinning
• inning
• pinning
• sinning
• skinning
• spinning
• thinning
• tinning
• twinning