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

Britain and the euro zone out of the starting blocks already.

From Reuters • Feb. 5, 2023

And yet he walks along the track, and then...he gets down in the starting blocks.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen