How to Use start from scratch in a Sentence

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• Those who fail both times have to start from scratch the next year.
  — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Tear the whole roster down and start from scratch.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Faculty do not have to do this alone or start from scratch.
  — Dr. Elizabeth Dorssom, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• That bond proved crucial when Tatum had to start from scratch.
  — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
• Upload your own samples or start from scratch.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
• In a strange way, almost having to start from scratch helped.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Feb. 2026
• Yet when the industry shuts down, they are left to start from scratch.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The Supreme Court can tell both to tear-up their work and start from scratch.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Jan. 2022
• New lessons in how to accomplish things with this front office would start from scratch.
  — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• One solution could be to throw them all out and start from scratch, but that presents its own challenges and may be overkill.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
• That means legislators would have to start from scratch to approve a new spending plan.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• Those tools are in place and ready for future disease threats, so health department wouldn’t have to start from scratch.
  — Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2023
• In order to exceed the capabilities of its first car, the team had to start from scratch.
  — New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
• Colt seems to be able to interpret Paco’s grunts as requests to keep a bar, rewind, or start from scratch.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
• With permission to start from scratch, consequences no longer apply.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• By offering libraries of components that can be reused, design systems reduce the need to start from scratch for each new project.
  — William Mullane, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
• Refresh your home or start from scratch with curtains, mattresses, blankets, chairs, couches, mirrors, and more.
  — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
• Each health system has to more or less start from scratch when selecting and implementing its AI tools.
  — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
• So a high first-rounder was lost for a second-round pick, which the Lions just used on a new tight end who now has to start from scratch at the same position.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2023
• The inmates, in classes of about eight, start from scratch with business ideas, as Mitchell talks them through their formation for two hours, twice a week, for three months.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2022
• If the Senate doesn't approve the deal by the end of the month, the bill dies, and both chambers would need to start from scratch in 2025.
  — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
• That process was complicated by the departure of one of the jurors on day six, which meant the jury had to start from scratch with an alternate seated.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
• The home has been updated throughout the years; however, as the listing points out, there is plenty of room to expand the building or even to start from scratch.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 June 2024
• Cheong took care to understand that the audience would not be experts in sustainable fashion, and strived to start from scratch tackling each topic.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 16 Sep. 2024
• For keyboard builders and people wanting to customize the look and feel of their keyboard without having to start from scratch, barebone kits are a standout.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2023
• In the end, Oracle could just start from scratch and create its own recommendation algorithm, which would not be hard.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• Afflalo said Black outreach workers had to start from scratch to build networks in neighborhoods amid the pandemic.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
• Eventually, his bosses ordered him to clean up his disorganized lab, start from scratch, get it together.
  — P.e. Moskowitz september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• Instead of trying to elbow in and make number nine, director Rob Zombie chose instead to start from scratch.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
• The Republican Party would have had to search for a new candidate who would have no money, having to start from scratch.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 July 2024