How to Use jump-start in a Sentence

jump-start

verb

• This mid-line stop disrupts the flow of the song and jump-starts the flow of our tears.
  — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Getting outside clears the mind and jump-starts the body for the day.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 11 July 2024
• This is a chance to jump-start your future with the city.
  — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
• The winter meetings are the time to jump-start that process.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Maybe an 8-1 win over those Mariners is the jump-start the club needs to get into gear.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
• There was a hop, a skip and a jump-start for Newcastle.
  — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
• Though his first film was Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Rush Hour is the movie that gave him a jump-start.
  — EW.com, 29 June 2024
• Her schedule got jump-started by that near miss at the 2023 Pan Am Games.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• Now the country's leaders are firing up a new round of plans to jump-start growth.
  — Joel Mathis, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024
• Atlanta wanted to run up and down the floor, jump-starting its offense on the fast break.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
• One-time state funding of $243 million would jump-start the program.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• One-time state funding of $243 million would jump-start the program.
  — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Perhaps showing up to the minicamp can jump-start the contract.
  — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
• To jump-start this rebuild, Vrabel wants guys who play and act a certain way.
  — Chad Graff, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
• Patzer pushed for 15 years to jump-start the data collection process but said she was stymied by red tape.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Matt Wallner jump-started the offense, tripling off the wall in center field.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2025
• Charlotte jumped ahead in the top of the fourth when Brandon Stahlman jump-started the offense with a solo homer to right field.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
• Fringed Coats Princess Eugenie also helped jump-start the fringed coat craze in late 2022.
  — Brittany Natale, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023
• In the case of the Mandelbrot set, computers helped to jump-start an entire field.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• Both incumbents trailed in the polls and proposed the debates to jump-start their campaigns.
  — Frederic J. Frommer, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• That massive impact could have played a role in jump-starting life.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2025
• The 6-foot-3 sophomore guard always comes off the bench with purpose and flair, showing his readiness to jump-start the offense.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
• There are many places in the world that never had telephones by wire and jump-started to mobile data.
  — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
• Will the Buffalo Bills’ signing of Leonard Floyd jump-start the edge-rusher market?
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• Some even offer motorboat tows to jump-start your trip.
  — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
• The data jump-started a big bond price rally, meaning yields fell.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
• Our programs are designed to jump-start the recovery process.
  — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2025
• The items on this list sound nice to liberal ears: Defeat Hamas, free the hostages, capsize Netanyahu’s coalition, end the war, and jump-start the peace process.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 30 Mar. 2024
• The Rangers outscored Baltimore by 10 in the three-game sweep that jump-started their run to a World Series victory.
  — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
• Early last season, in a successful attempt to jump-start Crosby after the Penguins captain endured a sluggish start, the Penguins placed Malkin on his left wing.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 16 June 2025