starter

Example Sentences

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He was a three-year starter who was asked to make calls up front with his intelligence, vision and instincts.

From Los Angeles Times

Before this season, he was sharing time at quarterback, showing incredible unselfishness while putting his trust in the process that everything would work out when it was his time to be the full-time starter.

From Los Angeles Times

Having re-signed, junior safety Christian Pierce is excited about being a potential starter next fall.

From Los Angeles Times

Many major poets are absent—Poe, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot and Pound, for starters—because they never appeared in the pages of the Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal

For starters, dividends have accounted for roughly 40% of stock market returns for the past century and have been paid by companies for hundreds of years.

From Barron's