How to Use bootstrap in a Sentence

bootstrap

1 of 2 noun

• Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
  — Shelly Sitton-Tygielski, Time, 25 Mar. 2026
• The legal market in our state needs a real bootstrap approach from our state.
  — A.j. Herrington, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The statue calls out to families who want to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
• Can’t pull yourself up by the bootstraps when centuries-old systems are designed to keep you from the damn boot.
  — Thomas Page McBee, Teen Vogue, 26 Mar. 2019
• Let’s pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and solve today’s Wordle!
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• In theory, anyone can lift themselves up by their proverbial bootstraps and live the dream.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2020
• How did bootstrap-pulling go from a ridiculous idea to an American ideal?
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
• These are literally people who are pulling themselves up from their bootstraps.
  — Alex V. Hernandez, Chicago Reader, 19 May 2017
• Or maybe also like an American ideal of pulling up yourself by your bootstraps.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
• Mfume pulled himself up by the proverbial bootstraps and decided to live a life of service rather than heading down the wrong path.
  — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026
• Though the sentiment was in the right place, the weekend got off to a rocky start, and on the second day pulled itself up from its bootstraps.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Billboard, 11 June 2018
• This case asks whether such a bootstrap can really subject him to deportation.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 24 May 2017
• In his work, Baumann applies the bootstrap to the beginning of the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019
• Our brains become our own enemy in this aggressive bootstrap-yanking project.
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• Bill Clinton pulled himself up by his bootstraps and was a young, exciting governor.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 Apr. 2018
• Supplements are the self-help aisle—pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, living your best life—made manifest in pills and powders.
  — WIRED, 31 July 2023
• Here in bootstraps America, happiness is a state many moms find difficult to achieve.
  — Olivia Campbell, Good Housekeeping, 8 July 2019
• But despite his flawed methodology, Fryer is a darling among the smart, white elite who point to him as a bootstrap-puller.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 24 May 2018
• Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
• Conservatives loved his fabled story of having pulled himself up by the bootstraps.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• But dos Santos’ up-from-her-bootstraps narrative never stood up to much scrutiny.
  — Ben Hallman, Quartz Africa, 19 Jan. 2020
• Ingenuity, a sense of community, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps all can be seen in the people profiled.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• Candidates of color are not the only ones who rely on bootstrap biographies to bolster their appeal.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• This woman is clearly a firm believer in the bootstraps mentality.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
• Is a market of 80 vendors a bootstrap response to economic hardship?
  — John Leland Lexi Parra, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• Forty years of stagnant wages later, many Americans have come to believe that the rules are stacked against them and that the up-by-your-bootstraps story is a myth.
  — Andrea Flynn, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
• The informal rally harked back to his days as an up-by-the-bootstraps populist and Islamist leader who often spoke from the tops of buses.
  — Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 17 July 2016
• Reece correctly notes that Winfrey managed to pull herself up by her bootstraps (with virtually no boots).
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Tyler Perry, himself somebody who made his own way, pulled himself up by the bootstraps, has offered Geoffrey a job.
  — Fox News, 5 Sep. 2018
• The successful Latino pulls himself up by his bootstraps, loves and serves his country, and seeks to enrich it with his contributions.
  — J.p Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023

bootstrap

2 of 2 verb

• Seek investment and go big to go home or bootstrap your way to success?
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• Many business owners love to bootstrap their business not to take on debt.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• Can’t free enterprise bootstrap truly world-changing new tech all on its own?
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Jan. 2021
• Once a phone is added, people use it to bootstrap each smart home device connected to the account.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
• Hence this is not the ideal business where leaders should try and bootstrap the initiative.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• There’s no correct way to bootstrap a business, go with your instinct and ignore the naysayers.
  — Alison Coleman, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• To bootstrap the process, the first-year projects come with a theme and a structure that helps the students write their learning agreement.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2020
• But most new entrepreneurs don’t have this luxury and need to bootstrap their development and growth.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Carefully manage the cash and bootstrap your business to avoid business failure in the first couple of years.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Not everyone can bootstrap their business, and not every business should be bootstrapped.
  — Carl Rodrigues, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• The alternative to seeking outside funding for your business is to bootstrap your way.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Evolution doesn’t proceed according to a plan, and often has to bootstrap its way out of problems of its own making.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• How might a college town bootstrap this community-building engine?
  — Zach Wener-Fligner, Quartz at Work, 11 Aug. 2020
• So Havre pushed Choreful to the top of his to-do list, took time off from his day job to bootstrap that launch into reality.
  — Michaella Huck, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Few founders have the personal wealth nor immediate revenue to bootstrap their company for long.
  — Yule Georgieva, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023
• Customers are often the first ones to identify a need, experience a pain point and even bootstrap a solution.
  — Tom Yeshurun, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• Today’s founders are in a better position to bootstrap their business than those of us who launched companies 20 years ago.
  — Peter Pezaris, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2022
• Blizzard is the latest example in the growing trend of nine-figure incentive programs by blockchain teams to bootstrap growth.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• The goal was to bootstrap supply side liquidity, allowing the protocols to grow.
  — Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Immigrants, regardless of their merit coming in, tend to bootstrap themselves up in a remarkable way.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• With their relentless drive, the couple was able to bootstrap CurlMix to over a million dollars in sales in just 12 months.
  — Essence, 18 Jan. 2022
• Those lessons shaped Scandit in our early days to bootstrap, experiment, and find initial product-market fit.
  — Samuel Mueller, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
• This feedback loop also allows the AI to quickly bootstrap itself out of a nearly blank-slate state of ignorance.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
• Nelson, who has been in the race the longest, has already traveled to all 72 counties in an attempt to bootstrap his way to the nomination.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2021
• All are trying to bootstrap their way into English language proficiency — perhaps even a shot at college.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• To bootstrap, Chrome also isolates a crowdsourced list of sites where mobile users have been entering passwords most frequently.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
• While large outdoor businesses hire public relations and marketing firms to do the heavy lifting, small outdoor businesses must be ready to bootstrap it.
  — Alex Temblador, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2021
• One way to avoid the pressures and dilution associated with VC funding is to bootstrap the business.
  — Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• But Toyota’s goal of building the world’s greatest creator hub will only start to take shape if outside companies find real ways to bootstrap their next products here.
  — Tim Stevens, ArsTechnica, 4 May 2026
• Brown left her 20-year corporate career in healthcare and insurance to bootstrap the company’s first 18 month.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022