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.
• It’s been great to start the page and to see the changes.
  — Essence, 4 Apr. 2022
• Now is the time to prepare to have to start paying again.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2022
• The two girls had just started kindergarten at the school.
  — Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 30 Aug. 2017
• Germ cell tumors start from the cells that produce the eggs.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 15 June 2021
• Sign up here to receive an email right as the chat is about to start.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• Ideas might start coming to you from out of the blue today.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• But the time to start the process of learning to love this baby is now.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2023
• Ford is ready to start spending more time at the campground.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2022
• What if the oven knew what was inside of it, and knew when to start and stop?
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• As the days lengthen again in spring, the bulbs will start to enlarge.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• Fanned by a steady stream of content, the song started climbing the charts.
  — Mike Wass, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• Just take a seat on the patio and start shedding those toxins.
  — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 14 July 2018
• That or start a vintage store that has only big and tall sizes.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2021
• All are asked to arrive a little early so that the event can start on time.
  — cleveland, 8 July 2022
• Some of the cuts would start as early as this calendar year.
  — Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News, 5 July 2017
• If your autumn wardrobe is in dire need of a refresh, this is a great place to start.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2022
• Do that, and the Dodgers will expand their strike zone and start chasing.
  — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• Mile five: push just a bit past the annoying pace, start to let out the speed.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Flowers bloom early in the spring as leaves start to appear.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Aug. 2023
• Be sure to start early, take your time, and be patient.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022

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start

2 of 2 noun

• The trip has been in the works since the start of the year.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2019
• The Glenville senior took the pace out very hard from the start.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 May 2021
• Sounds of a thunderstorm signaled the start of the show.
  — Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 13 Oct. 2021
• Both gains were the biggest since the start of the pandemic.
  — Bloomberg.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Here are some stats that tell the tale of the start of the Huskies’ season.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2022
• Honadel is in the hunt as well thanks to a strong start and finish.
  — Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• But the process was rigged from the start (see article).
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• To ensure your new shrub gets a good start, choose the right plant for the right place.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 24 June 2022
• That’s for somebody that was with the band from the very start, and that wasn’t me.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
• The first girl took a running start and started up the wall but fell back down.
  — Ilana Strauss, SELF, 9 July 2018
• Movie start times vary based on the month, so check the schedule in advance.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2021
• Poole’s just happened to come at the start of his career.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 23 June 2020
• Maybe those thumbprints doomed my perception from the start.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 22 Oct. 2020
• Lopez got off to a strong start, making his first three field goals.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Davante Adams is off to the fastest start of his career.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 15 Nov. 2020
• Turns out, putting more fun in starts with taking one wheel off.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• Saturday night was his sixth start of the season and fifth at first.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 17 Apr. 2022
• The rental-assistance program got off to a slow start last year.
  — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• Now, Unite sees the new plan for a one-time payout as a good start.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 13 June 2022
• Andrew Heaney will make his second start of the spring.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• On Monday night, a lousy start was once again the culprit.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• Bauer got off to a good start, where the focus was only baseball.
  — Stephen Wade, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
• For a start, leaving lockdown is a process, not an event.
  — The Economist, 30 Apr. 2020
• Sadie Robertson's new year has not gotten off to the best start.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• And one was led by a quarterback making his first start.
  — Carlos Mendez, star-telegram, 5 Nov. 2017
• Fall means the start of dive fisheries for pricey sea cucumbers.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• After his strong start, the senior seemed to be pressing at times.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2021
• But after so many blasts, might a mountain start to sag?
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
• Water year is off to a banner start, but don’t get your hopes up.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• Combs, now retired, said Biehl was a leader from the start.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 6 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024