starting blocks
Example Sentences
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When it comes to making travel plans for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, you may still be crouched at the starting blocks.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
So - which parts of Team GB triumphed, and which struggled to get off the starting blocks?
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024
Still, despite Hayden and Brandon Tanev throwing some first-period weight around, the sluggish game had trouble getting out of its starting blocks.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023
"Without a prima facie right, the respondents never got out of the starting blocks," part of the judgement read.
From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2022
From their starting blocks to their jumping standards to their landing systems and cages and hurdles and bleachers, their equipment totally puts Liberty High to shame.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
