Advertisement

View definitions for start out

start out

verb as in set sail

verb as in shove off

verb as in strike out

Discover More

Example Sentences

Start out with that so you understand what happened, beginning with the Treaty of Westphalia.

Riedel added that not all Americans who went to join ISIS start out looking to become Islamic militants.

To be completely honest, like I said, I did not start out trying to make any kind of statement whatsoever.

“General Motors did not start out to be a health care company that occasionally built an automobile,” Punaro said.

Maybe this is hope for authors: you can start out a Casaubon, but you have to become a Sebald.

My son gives the young men and women a complete wardrobe when they start out to win their way in life, and the details fall on me.

He would hardly be likely to start out on a long trip across country without a watch, and yet nothing of the sort was discovered.

To start out between the sections of an extra train would be to court destruction.

Newland and Tarlton is the firm that outfits most shooting parties that start out from Nairobi.

Hundreds of girls start out and find work for the first time without any evident responsibility on the part of even good mothers.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement