How to Use get/set/start the ball rolling in a Sentence

get/set/start the ball rolling

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• Even so, many do not jump on the chance to get the ball rolling.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2021
• Here’s a look at some of the ways employers may get the ball rolling.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
• Try to answer it with optimism and be ready to get the ball rolling.
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• People want to get the ball rolling and start to piece their lives back together.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
• There’s a video message from the filmmakers to get the ball rolling, too.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
• Another avenue would be to spur from within a spark that might get the ball rolling.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Oftentimes though, one event can get the ball rolling in politics.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 31 Jan. 2022
• Maybe Hudson will meet a fortune teller in the next few days in order to get the ball rolling.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 20 July 2024
• Small steps can get the ball rolling right now -- especially creatively.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• Such a step would get the ball rolling and convince even more of the manufacturing countries to sign on.
  — Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2020
• Many migrants lose their cases for simply not showing up, but the seminars may at least get the ball rolling.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
• To get the ball rolling, Natasha planned an intimate massage for Brendan.
  — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• So, get the ball rolling on all of your Mother's Day baking with a few of our favorite make-ahead desserts.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
• What better way to get the ball rolling than spending a game putting as much on film as possible for an opponent to think about.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• At the same time, colleges can get the ball rolling by employing as many students as possible themselves.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
• Here are 30 of the best New Year's Eve decorations to get the ball rolling.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 8 Dec. 2022
• Start the discussion during Mercury retrograde to get the ball rolling.
  — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025
• Engineers have already come out to the property to get the ball rolling on the project and the aim is for the planning phase to begin in earnest next month.
  — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• In order to get the ball rolling, patent searches need to be carried out to ensure that your invention does not infringe on someone else’s patent.
  — Jon Stojan, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• In the meantime, industry groups have set up their own initiatives to get the ball rolling on CDR.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 6 Aug. 2024
• In another version of a student loan scam, you might be asked to make a small upfront payment to get the ball rolling on student loan forgiveness.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2023
• So a lot of times what ends up taking place is the families find their way by hook or crook to kind of third parties who sometimes get the ball rolling in through sort of back channels.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
• As early as this summer, the department will get the ball rolling on buying more busses, designing mobility hubs and make plans for tolling in the canyon.
  — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023
• During tonight’s new episode, the remaining six castaways look to get the ball rolling at the reward challenge to win a relaxing evening at the sanctuary.
  — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 17 May 2023
• Maybe to get the ball rolling a bit faster, a motion to strike hearing in the lawsuit case has now been moved up from August 5 to May 15.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
• Could the Brewers and Yankees blockbuster deal get the ball rolling on a potential Helsley trade?
  — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
• Elliot-Kugell says the book has been in its conceptual stages for more than a decade, but the pandemic forced her to finally write the proposal and get the ball rolling.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
• Buying your Valentine’s Day gifts on Amazon is a fast and convenient way to get the ball rolling on last-minute holiday shopping.
  — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 3 Jan. 2023
• At the time, Glickman echoed the Wayans’ eagerness to get the ball rolling on a new installment of Scary Movie in a statement of his own.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 Jan. 2025
• The funding generated by the $38 million bond sale will get the ball rolling on funding the projects, the release said, as well as refund some outstanding obligations.
  — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025