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 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
• Tarot did not start out as a spiritual or fortune-telling tool.
  — Vana Goblot, The Conversation, 13 May 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Her tolerance for the job was forged early by starting out as a child actor at age 11.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 June 2026
• This ranking might be a touch high to start out for Pieper, who has plenty to prove when facing power over the ball.
  — Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
• The film starts out as a farfetched farce of illusion and then grows more…complicated.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
• By Eliyahu Kamisher, Bloomberg Chris Larsen didn’t start out rich.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
• Brown patch actually starts out by turning patches of your grass yellow.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 26 July 2026
• Tuesday will start out cold but turn milder by the afternoon, and the coming days will bring several chances of rain.
  — Joseph Dames, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• This is why a bowl of rigatoni can look more generous than the same weight of angel hair—even if both started out as two dry ounces.
  — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026