starters

Example Sentences

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The other three teams have starters they can build around for years to come.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

For starters, the average nationwide state gas tax rate is only about 40 cents per gallon.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

For starters, the law allows members of the board to remain in place until their successor is confirmed by the Senate and ready to take over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Instead, most of the players left behind were not starters, and needed more individual work, or what I call 'entertaining' sessions.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

His priority was to stockpile antiretroviral drugs—enough, for starters, to treat twenty-five patients in Cange who had full-blown AIDS.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French