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Example sentences for "begin with"

  • I wouldn't mind taking anything to begin with.

  • As a misfortune to begin with, our engine broke down between Lancaster and Carlisle.

  • Suppose I begin with myself, so as to get done with that part of the subject as soon as possible?

  • Regular features form a personal advantage to begin with--and he has them.

  • If her husband has succeeded in bringing her to her senses, he deserves the gratitude of every member of the family, and he may have mine to begin with.

  • Perhaps their den might well have been stormed, and themselves driven out of the forest, if honest people had only agreed to begin with them at once when first they took to plundering.

  • But now I was like to have that and more; for my heart was down, to begin with; and then Robert Snell was a bigger boy than I had ever encountered, and as thick in the skull and hard in the brain as even I could claim to be.

  • And that he might breathe himself, and have every fibre cool, and every muscle ready, my hold upon his coat I loosed, and left him to begin with me, whenever he thought proper.

  • And to tell the truth, I grew afraid; perhaps from a kind of sympathy, and because I knew that evil comes more readily than good to us.

  • She could not say any more, because her heart was now too much for her, coming hard in her throat and mouth; but she opened up her eyes at him.

  • How many sons, Master Huckaback, and what is the name of each one?

  • To begin with, Philip did not look at all as he had supposed his son would look.

  • To begin with he would need money, and on opening his pocket-book he ascertained that his available funds consisted of only a dollar and thirty-seven cents.

  • To begin with, she is always dreading that some untoward circumstance will reveal the imposition she has practiced upon Mr. Granville.

  • To begin with, you must take Philip's name.

  • You know, to begin with, since it seems he has advertised with you, that he runs some sort of brokerage business in Boston.

  • To begin with, he knew all about it, and we didn't.

  • Here, to begin with, is this Captain Trent trying some fancy course, leastways he's a thousand miles to south'ard of the great circle.

  • To begin with, she is too big for the trade, to my taste; and then you carry so much style.

  • For example, I might give you what they call the rational explanation, to begin with.

  • Let me begin with a question, in my capacity as nurse.

  • She stopped, and looked at me doubtingly, as if she felt far from sure, poor soul, of winning my confidence to begin with.

  • He was an active little man, of a sweet and cheerful temper; and he gave the signal to begin with as patient an interest in the proceedings as if they had caused him no trouble in the past and promised him no difficulty in the future.

  • Not in the crowded thoroughfares, to begin with.

  • There are many varieties of Rogue; let me tell you my variety, to begin with.

  • Mr. Huxtable is out of the question, to begin with.

  • I want to know where he lives, to begin with.

  • The captain was in a raging temper, for he was short-handed to begin with.

  • Well, there's the ground cleared to begin with.

  • His descent must be pretty good to begin with, and there are families, remember, that claim the Koreish blood.

  • Presently we climbed up into hills, and the road, though not badly engineered to begin with, grew as rough as the channel of a stream.

  • I was half a head shorter than him to begin with, and a man does not feel his stoutest when he has no clothes, so he had the pull on me every way.

  • We must be on our guard, my friends; and to begin with, Harry, you positively must question Nell.

  • To begin with, the visitor was transported without danger or fatigue to a level with the workings, at fifteen hundred feet below the surface of the ground.

  • To begin with, the anonymous letter, contradictory to that of my father, at once proves that some man had become aware of our projects, and wished to prevent their accomplishment.

  • To begin with, the thing can have had but a secondary importance for him, as it is only the model.

  • To begin with, there was the common name.

  • You're not in a rage: that's a good sign to begin with.

  • I begin with a dreadful vacancy in my eyes, and a hollow moaning in my voice: 'Is this a dagger that I see before me--?

  • Let us try my plan to begin with," he insisted.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "begin with" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    begin again; begin upon; begin with; begin work; beginning with; charge upon; firm hold; first century; general practitioner; grew very; her letter; les femmes; limited number; neither hath; our business; putting down; religious system; said kindly; score years; she didn; she might; small bulb; suddenly said; telling you; that name; whatever happens