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
• The winter meetings are the time to jump-start that process.
  — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Those birdies may have jump-started their second rounds, as Ko shot a 65 and Korda a 66 on Friday playing in the morning wave.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• The half-mile track shaped like a paper clip is home to the triumphant victory that jump-started the success of the team 14-time Cup Series champions.
  — Jim Dedmon, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2024
• The funds are intended to jump-start recovery, not cover a full rebuild.
  — Viviana Hinojos, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• This method jump-starts the development of the dish, infusing big flavor from the very beginning stages.
  — Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• Under Bracey’s leadership in the U.S., Unilever has been trying to jump-start growth, in part by shuffling its portfolio.
  — Suzanne Vranica, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• Since jump-starting her career at 12 years old, thanks to a co-sign from Justin Bieber, Beer’s circle of friends and mentors has only gotten bigger.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
• Whatever the cause, the jump-start of a matinee can feel less like a passive entertainment than a nourishing meal.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Xerox will lay off 15% of its workforce as the struggling digital printing company moves to cut costs and jump-start growth.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
• Earned rewards will transfer to the new program, the company said, and members will receive bonus points for every visit made in the last year to jump-start their progress on the new program.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
• Earned rewards will transfer to the new program, the company said, and members will receive bonus points for every visit made in the last year to jump-start their progress on the new program.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 1 May 2024
• Stuber joined in 2017 with the mandate to build up the streamer’s originals library and jump-start its tentpole ambitions.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024
• Betts jump-started the offense again in the third, leading off with a hustle double to left-center and sliding headfirst into second.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024