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

Summaries of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets in the beginning of the codex are accompanied by the Cyrillic and Slavic (Glagolitic) alphabets, which were added to the codex in the 14th century. — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Kao, Hartman and other Navatek executives approached the offices of Graham, Clyburn and Wilson — all powerful members of the South Carolina delegation — in the beginning of 2019. — Molly Redden, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2026

The two couples collide at the funeral in the beginning of the film. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Things came together over time, but a lot of it was there in the beginning. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for in the beginning

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