start off
Example Sentences
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"The person who had the bag wasn't too cooperative with us to start off with," he said, which made "things a little bit difficult".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
"We're not going in there with a big stick to start off with, what's fair is that there's a conversation, that conversation leads to action, and the parents buy into that action," he said.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
For many of the tracks on “Halo,” Day would start off with a producing collaborator and finish on her own: “They’ll usually send me home with the Ableton file, then I get to freak it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Women and men start off relatively equal when they enter the workforce, but within a few years, their earning paths diverge.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026
He still don’t say anything, though, so I start off for home, chest tight.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
