start out
Example Sentences
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When I started out, the size of the balkanized art community was small.
From Los Angeles Times
I didn’t start out to write a newspaper novel.
From Salon
“It started out as two trams and a Quonset hut on Lankershim Boulevard,” Stein told The Times in a 2023 interview.
From Los Angeles Times
I appreciate that stat because when I started out in management a million years ago, I worked off the basis that a clean sheet was worth twice as much as scoring a goal.
From BBC
This is just how the Earth – and all the other planets in our Solar System – started out, back when our Sun was much, much younger.
From Space Scoop
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.