How to Use start out in a Sentence

start out

phrasal verb

• In Columbus, the night will start out wet, but then clear.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 10 May 2024
• The series did not start out as a project for McEntire.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
• Writers and cast members all start out with the same salary.
  — Andy Hoglund, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
• Most books tell you to start out doing this 10 times and work your way up from there.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
• The show started out with a laugh track but scrapped it for Season Two.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
• The 15-petal count blooms start out bright yellow and fade to a deep pink-cherry red.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• And the tempo of the song starts out slow but then gets very fast very quickly … boom boom boom.
  — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• The offseason started out hot, but has come to a bit of halt as of late.
  — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
• West Virginia Rollin' Smoke started out as a food truck — hence the name.
  — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
• This starts out toasty and bright, with a crisp apple tartness.
  — Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
• The unions had started out at forty per cent, then went to thirty-five per cent.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• In this movie, Roy Cohn starts out strong and his health and strength decline throughout.
  — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024
• The first inning started out strong: The Yankees walked Ohtani.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
• This project started out two years ago as a three-minute salute to Williams on his 90th birthday.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
• The Ukrainian boxer started out fast against Fury, but the British star owned Usyk in the middle rounds.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 May 2024
• That meant the pristine J. Jill T-shirt style dress that started out at $12 was only $4 that day.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
• The mood on my bus, which had started out lighthearted and jovial, began to turn.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
• The Flex starts out much the same as the standard The Bigger Carry-on, able to hold lots of gear in an overhead-bin-friendly size.
  — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• When Simpson started out the year, her goal was to win a state championship.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Just to start out: the federal EV tax credit is still alive and kicking.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
• The finale starts out with a montage of the cast members yelling at one another.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2024
• That wasn’t an option with the Wild One, though, which started out life as a 1:10 scale RC car that kids could build themselves.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
• The poll also suggests that Harris starts out free of some of the same baggage that burdened Biden.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
• Craft house started out in 2016 as a food truck serving burgers made from a blend of fresh-ground chuck, short rib and brisket beef.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• But as of now, visibility is too low to start out on a new road trip.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025
• Yet what started out with so much promise somehow took a dark turn.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
• The cookbook started out as a housewarming gift for my sons.
  — Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2024
• The scene starts out with an upbeat tone, as Eddie Miller unpacks a birthday card from Jamie.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 14 Mar. 2025
• In a video shared by Pop Base, the singer's long-sleeve gown starts out half blue and half red before changing to fully red with flashing lights forming dots.
  — Catherine Santino, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
• If Bennet wants to beat Weiser, starting out his campaign with a political power grab is not a good look.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2025