Used in a Sentence

starts

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for starts.

Editorial note

If you can grok what the convective derivative really means, this starts to make intuitive sense.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The beginning of an activity.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of starts gathered in one view.

noun

The beginning of an activity.

noun

A sudden involuntary movement.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for starts.

noun

The beginning of an activity.

noun

A sudden involuntary movement.

noun

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

noun

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

Example sentences

1

If you can grok what the convective derivative really means, this starts to make intuitive sense.

2

What if after coming under attack it starts behaving like an offensive robot that has been banned under the treaty?

3

While that's a good approach, it has the problem that it starts another cycle of adding loopholes for the usual considerations.

4

The fun part is when the google pagespeed tool starts nagging about google's own resources (fonts, analytics etc.) -- so meta.

5

The more that starts to be in the box, and the better people understand it the better in a lot of ways.

6

Michael Seibel starts at about 21:00 and gets a very nice introduction for how much everyone else seems to want his blood.

7

It starts off with auspicious beginnings where everyone involved knows almost everyone else involved.

8

As soon as a terrible solution starts to look and feel okay to a lot of (wealthy or middle-class) people, that's dangerous.

9

Those results can be changed if Google wants to do business in France and quite likely the EU if it all starts to escalate.

10

Another instance of this is in Moby Dick, which starts with the (great) scene of Ishmael sharing a bed with Queequeg before they ship out together.

11

You're absolutely right though: networking starts now, but it is hard when I can't be there in person and go to meetups, etc.

12

It only really starts getting js-heavy after about 2010.

Quote examples

1

It's not "all numbers", it's people, and the second one loses sight of that one starts to let in the door all sorts of evil crap.

2

As I stated below, woman starts rant, woman ends up saying "how hot I am" anchalee above is the same anchalee who's blog we're talking about.

3

By contrast having people write down long calculations and gain practice eventually leads to competency through familiarity, but in my opinion it takes longer before the math starts "connecting" to mental models of what is being written down.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use starts in a sentence?

If you can grok what the convective derivative really means, this starts to make intuitive sense.

What does starts mean?

The beginning of an activity.

What part of speech is starts?

starts is commonly used as noun.