starters
Example Sentences
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The Nuggets are already dealing with an injury crisis that has left them deprived of regular starters Aaron Gordon and Christian Braun.
From Barron's
“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.
Many major poets are absent—Poe, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot and Pound, for starters—because they never appeared in the pages of the Atlantic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
