Word Finder - start

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The beginning of an activity.

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The movie was entertaining from start to finish.

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A sudden involuntary movement.

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He woke with a start.

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The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.

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Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.

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An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.

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Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.

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A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.

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An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.

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to get, or have, the start

It would start all over again.

I don't want you to start feeling neglected.

Don't start acting like it was all my idea.

I need to start taking care of that.

She'd start feeling more comfortable with the room.

I think you'll start all the way down.

You could start looking around for lines that connect things we didn't previously think were connected.

I want you to start learning what it means to be in charge of something.

Watch, and as soon as the soldiers are ready to start, hang a lantern in the tower of the old North Church.

Zherkov touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the song.

I'll go in and start supper.

It will be a new start for us.

I'll take a couple of the meetings, and I tasked Jenn to start forwarding intelligence reports to me as well.

When you start seeing Nick... that way, try to replace it with a warm family moment.

Our nervous quintet settled in, ordered wine for the drinkers and waited for one of us to start the conversation.

I knew from the start we were a house of cards in a windstorm, but you were the glue that held us together.

And when are we to start, your excellency?

Don't you start that infidelity stuff on me.

Okay, where to start?

But if she moved, the car might start rocking again.

Waking with a start, she glanced at her watch.

If our privacy was assaulted by some mistake we made, at least we could start over.

I don't want to start over as someone else in a new place.

After they had gone Pierre approached Prince Andrew and was about to start a conversation when they heard the clatter of three horses' hoofs on the road not far from the shed, and looking in that direction Prince Andrew recognized Wolzogen and Clausewitz accompanied by a Cossack.

Don't you know people talk about a woman who spends weeks out here with men - and men start to get ideas.

Howie woke with a start and immediately related details he remembered.

We'll start by taking out what's here and the warehouse where he's storing weapons.

I'll start from the beginning.

When did that start - and was it a good thing?

But Howie nagged me to start bridge building.

What do we all do, take those fake papers and run off someplace and start over, or go into hiding?

I realize now my venture was doomed to failure from the start as my target was far better protected than I sensed.

What makes you think I won't start telling tales?

You've got a good start on it now.

When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!

I was right from the start, though... about you.

You start that and he'll hang around for sure.

We don't start serving until five o'clock called one of a half dozen women setting out food on a steam line.

Tomorrow Uncle Henry and I must start back for Kansas.

I had had, moreover, a good start in French, and received six months' instruction in Latin; but German was the subject with which I was most familiar.

College would start soon and she would be leaving anyway.

For a start we could have him take a nap up there while we fix lunch.

I don't know where to start.

I camp out sometimes, to get an early start.

A DNA test would start around five hundred bucks.

The parade's about to start!

Don't start down that path.

You cannot destroy this place or start a war with me before four days have passed.

If a million people lose their jobs to a machine, then entrepreneurs start businesses that hire those people to do other things.

Still, they had spent so much money on it and needed to start getting something back.