How to Use start in a Sentence

start

1 of 2 verb

• I started the quilt last month.
• As soon as you're ready to play, we'll start.
• Olympic athletes start young and train hard.
• He started studying music at the age of five.
• He deleted what he wrote and started fresh.
• Have you started your book report?
• She started the meeting with a brief review of the previous meeting.
• Let's start with some warm-up exercises.
• They started clearing land for the new housing development.
• We started the meeting at 6:30.
• When did the sewage spill start?
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
• No slow start tonight for Texas.
  — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 18 Mar. 2026
• That, of course, starts with him as a coach.
  — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
• First, your jack-o-lantern's eyes start to squint.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
• That’s where any help for Woods should start.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
• And yet the story does start again.
  — Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
• They were scheduled to start at noon.
  — Michael Guise, CBS News, 23 June 2026
• This was the diss track that started it all.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
• And maybe that starts the wheels turning.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
• Rain starts to pour through the open window.
  — Blake Simons, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
• So where does this story start?
  — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• The answer starts right at your front door.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
• And that’s where the trouble starts.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
• Meanwhile, the next task starts.
  — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
• Don’t overthink it — start him.
  — Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
• And there couldn’t be a better team to start one against.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 17 Mar. 2026
• Yet, starting yard cleanup too soon can do more harm than good.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2026
• And yet, our founders didn’t start with a map or a bloodline.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Anyone with curly hair knows that scalp care is where good curls start.
  — Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 18 Mar. 2026
• The deals start at just $6 and are up to 50% off.
  — ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026

start

2 of 2 noun

• This has been most clear on race starts.
  — Matt Reigle, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
• What a start, and against his old team, too.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
• The day got off to a rocky start for Left.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
• The team is off to a 1-3 start this year.
  — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• You guys are off to a historic start.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
• Earnings are off to a strong start so far.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
• That has been proven in the team's 2-7 start.
  — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
• An ending can be a start of a new life too.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
• The clunky start kept them off-balance.
  — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
• Many of his starts have been electric.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2026
• Williams has gotten off to a hot start as well.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
• Slow starts have been common, too.
  — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
• Brown knows how costly slow starts can be.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 1 June 2026
• Markets are off to a volatile start to the week.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2026
• But the new year always brings a fresh start.
  — Kristin Hohenadel, The Spruce, 12 Jan. 2026
• Daniels is off to a red-hot start this season.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 1 Sep. 2025
• This is a great start for this new front office.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• His team sees the deal as a start, not an ending.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
• One of my phones starts to ring and the other starts to ping.
  — Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• Overall, though, this team has to feel good about its start.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• Turns out, putting more fun in starts with taking one wheel off.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• Not in the big picture, and not in the form of a slow start.
  — Max Bultman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• Honadel is in the hunt as well thanks to a strong start and finish.
  — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Lopez got off to a strong start, making his first three field goals.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Sorokin earned his third shutout this month and second in four starts.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• But that may not be a bad thing, and could signal a fresh start.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
• Early didn’t give up a home run in any of his first eight starts.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
• That start is not on (Wedgewood) at all.
  — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2026
• The news of their trip comes amid a busy start to the year for the couple.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
• What date does the Lenten season start, end?
  — Chris Sims, IndyStar, 10 Feb. 2026