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get off the ground
I start my day with a good breakfast
We embarked on an exciting enterprise
The afternoon session begins at 4 PM
We began the new semester
Who started this company?
The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack -
get going or set in motion
start up the computer
We simply could not start the engine
How To Use start up In A Sentence
- To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
- Jenny tedder, shows like Survivor will be in the column when they start up. Jenny’s This Week on TV | the TV addict
- She had some grandiose ( ie overambitious ) plan to start up her own company.
- Aren't you chancing your arm a bit giving up a secure job to start up a business?
- In a meadow on the hills that encompass the city, I found the American dandelion in bloom, and some large red clover, and started up some skylarks as I might start up the field sparrows in our own uplying fields. Winter Sunshine
- Without losing any time, she leaned forward ready to start up the rocket motors.
- Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain.
- The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there.
- Maybe it's time for local authorities to start up umbrella recycling schemes to return these instruments of torture to point of sale or, preferably, to bury them deep in landfill sites instead.
- But fortunately this time round I deselected the ‘don't ask on start-up’ option, which appears on the initial start up.