the start

noun

: the place where a race begins

The runners lined up at the start.

Examples of the start in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Since the start of the month, Leah Richardson of Harrison, a single mom of four boys, a full-time nursing student and part-time nurse hasn't received her SNAP benefits because the federal government shutdown. —Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2025

From the start, Brockman viewed infrastructure as central to OpenAI’s mission. —Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025

Partially funded by the Boeing Company, one of the largest aerospace companies in the world, the project aims to help future aircraft designs integrate lightning protection systems more efficiently from the start of the engineering process. —Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025

There’s also the possibility that the same storminess that’s likely to bring some sloppy weather to Minneapolis at the start of the weekend organizes into a storm that could drop a quick stripe of snow through the Midwest early next week. —Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for the start

• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart
• upstart