start

How to use start in a sentence

Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.

The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.

But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.

He said that you were going along, and so I thought I'd hunt you up and tell you that we'll start about seven in the morning.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

The intellect is thus kept compulsorily and delightfully occupied from the start to the finish.

ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)

It may be added that they start with the most dignified part of this crown of creation, viz., the human head.

My father took me to the office in which I was to make a start and presented me to the chief clerk.

My son gives the young men and women a complete wardrobe when they start out to win their way in life, and the details fall on me.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

So did my versatile friend, joyously confident in his powers, start on his glorious career as a private detective.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985