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Example sentences for "start"

Lexicographically close words:
starry; stars; starshine; starship; starships; started; starter; starters; starting; startings
  1. It is a poor compliment to pay to a painter to tell him that his figure stands out of the canvass, or that you start at the likeness of the portrait.

  2. There were two weeks wanting to the arrival of Christmas day, and Phyllis was not to start homeward until the twenty-third.

  3. It is much easier to be bad than good for people who start crooked; you started straight, you and Jessamy and Bab.

  4. If I can't get enough together to be married in a month, I will start life in a shirt-waist and a duck skirt.

  5. Canada has made only a start in the lumber industry.

  6. He sprang forward the instant the pistol cracked, since the start of a sprint is very important, and one cannot overdo the practicing of it.

  7. They should then get across the pathway, over the iron handrails on its inner side, down to the floor level of the Mole, sixteen feet below, and then start the work.

  8. Love certainly is the best capital to start on, but a trifle of cash is necessary likewise; so we must take a little thought for the morrow.

  9. I can go now, if you will start me right.

  10. From sunrise to sunset men, women, and children worked, and in an incredibly short time houses rose, gardens developed and later teachers came to uplift the children and to start a Sunday School.

  11. And yet the start of that snowball was but 50 years ago.

  12. We only want someone to start and do something big to galvanise the smaller investors into action.

  13. I fully expected some of those firms to start their jobs as an incentive to others.

  14. An effort to start another demonstration in his honor was not wholly fruitless.

  15. I offered him money to start a carpenter shop or furniture factory or anything he wanted to tackle, but he wouldn't have it.

  16. When the boys out West get tired of being licked we will start in again and do business at the old stand.

  17. They were to start for Boston in the morning, and Harwood was to stay in Montgomery a day or two longer on business connected with the estate.

  18. He probably didn't start with any sort of ideals of public life: you did.

  19. You think," he said, "that I should go back and make a new start by a different route?

  20. She had carried her work from the start with remarkable ease and as the dragons of failure were no longer a menace she began to give more heed to the world about her.

  21. In business I aim at success; I didn't start out in life to be a failure.

  22. You better tell Atwill to start that up again.

  23. Mysie, strange to say, although she often stopped out of doors all night, was always back in good time for the start in the morning.

  24. Until I felt myself ready to start on my travels the neighborhood of Boynton would suit me better than anywhere else.

  25. I got my hat, and was about to start for the town, when I heard my name called.

  26. But Mr. Tolman was in a hurry to take possession; and as the son Henry would have to start off on another trip in a short time, he wanted to see his mother moved and settled before he left.

  27. The engine was the heart, which should start the circulation, which should keep it going, and which should send throbbing through every pipe the water which, if it were not our life, was very necessary to it.

  28. Now don't start as if you had a shock of it.

  29. You could start it when you liked and stop it when you liked.

  30. And when it came to that fan business I saw plainly that you must either immediately start for Europe or--" "Or what?

  31. Then we will complete the job; and as we shall start early in the morning with Tina in female attire, they will never miss her.

  32. Day after day he had waited in impatient expectation; till at length, unable to bear his suspense any longer, he resolved to start on the road she was to come, in the hope of meeting her.

  33. They wished to equal in renown the greatest warriors of the Osage nation; and it was a knowledge of the fact, that they were about to start on a marauding expedition, which created so great a sensation in the throng of maidens.

  34. Whether would it be better to start in the morning without inquiring for her at all, and leave the people of the house to find her dead, when they were far on the road, or whether make the discovery themselves?

  35. Who start at feathers, from an insect fly, A match for nothing--but the Deity.

  36. They saw my determination to start alone, if necessary, and to do them justice, they at once arose.

  37. My companions had promised that if disappointed they would start before nightfall and march till morning.

  38. We arose at dawn after a wet night on the 26th January, but we did not start till 7 A.

  39. Gudingaras; both places are supplied by Angagarri, a well near the sea, which is so distant that cattle, to return before nightfall, must start early in the morning.

  40. The morning cold greatly increased, and we did not start till 8 A.

  41. She showed her gratitude by bringing us milk, and by assisting us to start next morning.

  42. The Somal insisted upon halting to eat, and the caravan did not start before noon.

  43. I at once begged the governor to exert himself: he politely promised to start a messenger that hour, and he delayed doing so for ten days.

  44. He stopped their food until they promised to start the next day.

  45. How different their coming home From their gay start at morn; They creep along--a sorry sight-- Bedraggled and forlorn.

  46. Since holidays are few; Soon, hand in hand, they start afresh To seek adventures new.

  47. Magnificently attired at the start of the hunt, those seigneurs, who looked so resplendent in their rich tunics of silk, now presented a sight that was as ridiculous as it was pitiful.

  48. We shall return home to-morrow, so as to start taking in the harvest as soon as possible.

  49. We parted company almost at the very start of the hunt.

  50. The more daring and venturesome did not quit the pack, now fretting in their leashes to start in pursuit of the deer across the thickets.

  51. To-morrow at daybreak we shall start on our route.

  52. You will start to-morrow, early, with the escort to the pavilion of the forest, and you will thence depart for Armorica.

  53. From the start of the hunt, the Emperor of the Franks had rushed headlong on the heels of the hounds.

  54. The rest of you may keep yourselves in readiness for the hunt that we shall start upon in a few minutes.

  55. To-morrow we start for Brittany, where you will see again your mother and sister.

  56. He has certainly the start of Ternay, who is still invisible.

  57. Is your Bucks Scheme settled, do you start and where do I meet you?

  58. As this colloquy was conducted in the native tongue it was unintelligible to Nigel, but after the interview with the chief the hermit explained matters to him, and bade Moses get ready for a start several hours before dawn.

  59. There is a trader's vessel to start for Sumatra by the first light of day.

  60. If the sounds outside lead me to think things are quieting down, I will rouse you and we shall start at once.

  61. But--really--are we to start at daylight?

  62. Nigel had barely time to answer when a wild shout from the crew caused him to start up and look round.

  63. When night comes we will start again and get out of sight of land before the next dawn.

  64. If the volcano seems quieting down," said Nigel to his host, "shall you start to-morrow?

  65. Thus, from start to finish, difficulty and danger beset the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.

  66. JUDGE But you won't start until after the family party?

  67. All start toward the house impulsively, but on second thoughts they all stop.

  68. But at the end of that time she seemed well enough to start on their up-country journey.

  69. If the message was "All's well," they could start off for the coast by the roundabout northern route.

  70. Your letter dident tell us much but I suppose you were too busy having to start away on a ship the next morning.

  71. He might at any time have to forge a new career for himself and would want a little capital to start with.

  72. I must rest here and get my leg quite sound before I start for up-country.

  73. The very hot weather which closes the dry season made itself felt, so that the start from Hangodi had been begun in the early morning twilight, and each succeeding morning they took to the road at 5.

  74. Then, if you decide to come back to East Africa you could start another Industrial Mission on British territory among the Masai and the Nandi who would seem much the same as the people you are now leaving.

  75. Should he take Lucy to his heart, throw conventions and commissions to the winds, and start away with her on a wonderful journey of discovery, leaving the world and the Rev.

  76. After this abortive attempt on the part of the union to start negotiations with the steel industry through Judge Gary, and, ipso facto, to gain recognition from the leaders of the industry, events moved quickly to a climax.

  77. Then he whistled, just to see if it would come; but this only caused it to start up on its quivering legs, with desperate turns of the head that measured the chances of escape.

  78. You'll want to make a start for yourself now.

  79. So charming, in fact, was this phase of sentimental suspense that he felt a start of resentment when a telegram apprised him one morning that Vyse would return to his post that day.

  80. She heard Parvis start to his feet, and was dimly aware that she had slipped backward into the corner of the sofa, and that he was bending above her in alarm.

  81. To every person I met, with whom I had the slightest acquaintance, I said aloud, "I start at five to-morrow morning!

  82. Hadds worked at me to start a drug store with him.

  83. Poor Maggy, she wipes her eye on her apron, and says she'll start for our camp at oncet.

  84. The reader is caught at the start and held to the end.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "start" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    activate; advance; advantage; allowance; alpha; alphabet; arise; attack; attempt; base; basis; beat; begin; beginning; birth; blench; blink; boggle; bounce; bound; boundary; bourn; break; brew; broach; buck; bulge; bundle; burst; ceiling; chase; circumscription; clear; coin; commence; commencement; compass; conception; confine; constitute; core; course; crack; create; creation; cutoff; dawn; deadline; delimitation; depart; determinant; disintegrate; dog; draw; drive; drop; edge; embark; end; enter; entrance; establish; establishment; excite; extremity; fall; finish; fire; first; fissure; flick; flinch; flip; flirt; float; floor; flounce; flush; foment; found; foundation; fowl; fracture; frontier; generation; germ; get; gun; handicap; hawk; head; hedge; hitch; hop; hound; hunt; hurdle; inaugurate; infancy; initiate; institution; interface; introduce; issue; jar; jerk; jib; jolt; jump; launch; leap; limen; limit; limitation; line; make; march; mark; moot; move; negotiate; odds; oncoming; onset; open; opening; organize; origin; originate; origination; outbreak; outset; panic; pick; pioneer; pluck; pose; postulate; pounce; prefer; proceed; produce; propel; propose; proposition; propound; provoke; pull; quail; recoil; recommend; rise; run; rupture; scare; send; shock; shoot; shrink; shy; skedaddle; skip; snap; snatch; source; split; sport; spring; stalk; stampede; start; startle; submit; suggest; takeoff; term; terminus; threshold; touch; track; trail; turn; tweak; twitch; undertake; unravel; vantage; vault; wince; wrench


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    start again; start back; start from; start them; start with; started again; started back; started down; started early; started for; started forward; started from; started off; started out; starting from; starting point; startled look