starters

Example Sentences

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“We’ll see how the rest of the week goes with who all they are. They’ll be some situations where some starters are backups.”

From Los Angeles Times

All of the Lakers starters had at least one shot in the first three minutes of the game.

From Los Angeles Times

The Patriots scored touchdowns on each of their first six possessions before mercifully pulling their starters in the third quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal

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