How to Use jump-start in a Sentence

jump-start

verb

• This mid-line stop disrupts the flow of the song and jump-starts the flow of our tears.
  — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• Getting outside clears the mind and jump-starts the body for the day.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 11 July 2024
• The winter meetings are the time to jump-start that process.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Though his first film was Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Rush Hour is the movie that gave him a jump-start.
  — EW.com, 29 June 2024
• Her schedule got jump-started by that near miss at the 2023 Pan Am Games.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• Now the country's leaders are firing up a new round of plans to jump-start growth.
  — Joel Mathis, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024
• Atlanta wanted to run up and down the floor, jump-starting its offense on the fast break.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
• One-time state funding of $243 million would jump-start the program.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• Patzer pushed for 15 years to jump-start the data collection process but said she was stymied by red tape.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Charlotte jumped ahead in the top of the fourth when Brandon Stahlman jump-started the offense with a solo homer to right field.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
• Fringed Coats Princess Eugenie also helped jump-start the fringed coat craze in late 2022.
  — Brittany Natale, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023
• In the case of the Mandelbrot set, computers helped to jump-start an entire field.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• Both incumbents trailed in the polls and proposed the debates to jump-start their campaigns.
  — Frederic J. Frommer, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• There are many places in the world that never had telephones by wire and jump-started to mobile data.
  — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
• Will the Buffalo Bills’ signing of Leonard Floyd jump-start the edge-rusher market?
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
• The items on this list sound nice to liberal ears: Defeat Hamas, free the hostages, capsize Netanyahu’s coalition, end the war, and jump-start the peace process.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 30 Mar. 2024
• The Rangers outscored Baltimore by 10 in the three-game sweep that jump-started their run to a World Series victory.
  — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
• Taking at-bats at DH, this is the season that also jump-starts his career as a hitter.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024
• Apple is trying to jump-start AirPods sales after a few soft years.
  — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
• The first, jump-started by an electric return from Zachariah Branch, stalled at the five-yard line and resulted in a field goal.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
• The fund’s backer had pledged that the fund would be jump-started with up to $200 million in seed capital, more than any of the other funds disclosed.
  — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
• Came in here hoping to get jump-started with the conditions here and the environment.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2023
• The doc also jump-started a rebirth for recording at Shoals studios.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2023
• Past studies in mice suggest this shift in brain fueling is what jump-starts the creation of BDNF.
  — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• Friends and family rushed from near and far to help jump-start operations.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
• Although parties at Diona are regular, the place sure knows how to jump-start a weekend with its Greek Fridays.
  — Jahnavi Bhatt, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
• But inserting Adams, who lived with Rodgers during the week, into the starting lineup did not jump-start the offense as New York fell to 2-5.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
• He’s invested more than $800 million in long-term contract obligations to jump-start the team over the past two winters.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
• If consumers were to pull back, en masse, to await lower prices, businesses would face intense pressure to cut prices even more to try to jump-start sales.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
• This week, the White House put forward a $98 billion proposal to replenish the nation’s disaster aid — jump-starting negotiations on Capitol Hill.
  — Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024