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Example sentences for "start from"

  • An essential difference between Kant's method and that which I follow lies in this, that he starts from indirect, reflected knowledge, while I start from direct or intuitive knowledge.

  • It is not to work out of them but in them; that is to say, it is to deposit its results in them, but not to start from them as what is given.

  • His first choice would have been to start from Chattanooga as a base, and make the Confederate Army his object.

  • He prepared to start from Raleigh on the morning of the 26th, taking a steamer from New Berne on arriving there.

  • If we start from a certain place A, we can, from this position, make certain movements, M, characterized by a certain complex of muscular sensations.

  • All that can be done is to start from a certain number of concrete examples and say: the operation we have performed is called addition.

  • This is not easy, in particular, if we wish to start from Fresnel's theory.

  • It was my expectation to march against that army as soon as Buell, who had been ordered to reinforce me with the Army of the Ohio, should arrive; and the west bank of the river was the place to start from.

  • Thus, in saying that a thing is admirable, we start from a multitude of physical centres whose sense we are to determine.

  • As the country is overstocked with common beads, it is far more economical to obtain high-priced than low-priced beads when preparing to start from Zanzibar.

  • Not to be defeated, Baker obtained a Bari boy as interpreter, determined at all hazards to start from Gondokoro.

  • A proper place for the keels to start from, which, unguided by the compass, found their way over the mighty and mysterious Western Ocean.

  • A proper place for the keels to start from, which unguided by the compass found their way over the mighty and mysterious Western Ocean.

  • But the mere fact that Galileo knew that such an instrument had been invented caused his mental processes to start from an image put into his mind by an outside agency and not from his own imagination.

  • Oakland's just a place to start from, I guess.

  • Oakland was just a place to start from, he said.

  • Buy new plants or start from seed in spring.

  • Start from seed in August; transplant to boxes of suitable size, and on the approach of freezing weather cover gradually with leaves and rough manure or litter in a sheltered, well drained place.

  • Verbena--If any of these old brilliant favorites are wanted, start from cuttings, being sure to use strong new growth which may be induced by spading up and enriching the soil in August, and cutting back the plants.

  • The logician has assumed that the only alternative to his belief in absolutely certain premisses is complete scepticism, arguing that it must be possible to start from certainty, because otherwise no knowledge would be possible at all.

  • An immutable basis of absolutely certain truths, therefore, for reasoning to start from, is nowhere to be found.

  • It is probable that the inquirer will in fact usually have a supply of alternatives to start from.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "start from" 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:
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