How to Use start out in a Sentence

start out

verb

• Duffy added that many current trainees started out as gamers.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
• The three started out by going on boats but now fish from the shore.
  — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2026
• The offensive team starts out at the 5-yard line.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 June 2026
• The thought of starting out again on my own is frightening.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
• But many of those employees started out as users first.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 June 2026
• The novel starts out on a highway, in a car that’s driving too fast.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
• The journey to your sandwich Ham starts out as the back leg of a pig.
  — Anna Dilger, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
• The toolset starts out with a pair of dual-sided bits for use with the holder.
  — New Atlas, 21 July 2026
• Soboroff didn’t start out looking to be a reporter.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 June 2026
• Great ideas don’t usually start out fully formed.
  — Carmine Gallo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• So this started out as a marshmallow.
  — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 June 2026
• Williams started out as an angel investor.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 May 2026
• Kleier has worked at the center for a decade, and started out as a volunteer.
  — Jaimie Ding, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
• Tarot did not start out as a spiritual or fortune-telling tool.
  — Vana Goblot, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
• So in the minds of many voters, the candidates start out on equal footing.
  — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2026
• While the weekend started out stormy, the second day of the trip was sunny and clear.
  — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026
• Most strong friendships start out as something far more casual.
  — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2026
• The shuttle started out as a standard bus, but hardly anyone used it.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• In these studies, patients on insulin start out with a higher risk of cancer.
  — Ziyad Al-Aly, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
• There were games and Modelo, and the party started out just fine.
  — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
• The needles start out chartreuse green to a light green in the summer, turning orange in the fall.
  — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 15 June 2026
• So many thrillers start out great and then the ending is just kind of [blah], whereas this was a whopper of an ending.
  — Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026
• Moments like these can count against George and other young players who are just starting out.
  — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• Also, a pair of side tables started out as telephone book holders.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
• For example, the spinal cord starts out as a flat plate of neural tissue, but then rolls up into a tube.
  — ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
• The weekend will start out warm before rain and thunderstorm chances increase.
  — Joseph Dames, CBS News, 13 May 2026
• The spring housing market has been a bumpy one, starting out very slowly when rates rose sharply in March.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 6 May 2026
• His haunted house first started out in his garage in 1984, built for his four children.
  — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 21 Sep. 2026
• California started out the year drought-free.
  — Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 16 June 2026
• Income taxes started out small too and only applied to a few people.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026