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synonyms for starting gate

  • control gate
  • open gate
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How to use starting gate in a sentence

Through a maze of heat, a half-mile distant, at the starting-gate, little spots of color moved in impatient circles.
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT LOSERICHARD HARDING DAVIS
I patted Tapwater's flank, and so help me Newton, I think that one gentle tap pushed the colt half way to the starting gate!
LIGHTER THAN YOU THINKNELSON BOND
Then, amid a murmur of excitement, the starting-gate went up, and the horses were off.
ADRIEN LEROYCHARLES GARVICE
He drilled every last one of his two-year-olds till the starting gate was no more to them than so much steel and wood and webbing.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXI, NO. 6, OCTOBER, 1908VARIOUS
So, perfectly calm and very much bored, he danced to the starting-gate on the chestnut filly.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL. XXXI, NO. 6, OCTOBER, 1908VARIOUS
King trembled—perhaps as a racehorse trembles at the starting gate, though he was weary enough to tremble from fatigue.
KING--OF THE KHYBER RIFLESTALBOT MUNDY
While we were circling down I felt exactly as one feels at the start of a race, watching for the starting gate to rise.
CAUGHT BY THE TURKSFRANCIS YEATS-BROWN
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WORDS RELATED TO STARTING GATE

  • beginning of venture
  • beginning point
  • jumping-off point
  • springboard
  • starting blocks
  • starting gate
  • starting line
  • starting post
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.