How to Use kick in in a Sentence

kick in

verb

• The motor will kick in to help push up hills, or hold back on downhills to save parents’ backs.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• Sea breezes kick in during the summertime across Florida as well.
  — Britley Ritz, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• The franchise logo doesn’t appear, and the John Williams fanfare doesn’t kick in.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Only above those income levels does the 20% maximum rate kick in.
  — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• The law will increase workers’ pay over the next decade, with the $25 hourly rate kicking in sooner for some than others.
  — Ani Freedman, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
• That small sum paid is applied against an eventual producer fee that doesn’t kick in until start of production.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
• The anger and sadness from Blackfish kick in after only a few minutes and are sustained for over 80 minutes.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
• But price caps and income limits kick in, and new rules around battery components will limit the number of vehicles that qualify.
  — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• His reported four-year, $120 million extension won’t kick in until the next season.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• Unlike his brother, Alex was a straight-A student, at least until adolescent rebellion kicked in.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024
• An arms race has since kicked in across most sectors of the economy, with companies betting on various forms of AI transforming their businesses.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
• Labor Day weekend is fast approaching, the last hurrah of summer and often a last chance to squeeze in a trip before school, work and other responsibilities kick in.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2022
• Soto worried that while Echelson said the district may impose mask mandates on individual schools or classes in case of surges, there was no metric in place to determine when those would kick in.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022
• Kane buried the spot kick in the 54th, tying the score.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
• Kind of had to give him a big brother kick in the butt about it.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• There are a lot of instincts, a lot of things that kick in and switch on.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
• That’s where my patience, as well as my faith, had to kick in.
  — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
• That’s where the cable portion of this drop set kicks in.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• By the time the chorus of that song kicked in, a small group of dancers had gathered in the space between the screen and the front row.
  — Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2023
• The more equity investors kick in for the deal, the less Musk has to pay on his own.
  — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022
• The app comes with 10 free messages and then paid plans kick in after that.
  — Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• Once the genes kick in and your hair turns white, the melanin that created the hair color is gone.
  — Fiona Embleton, Allure, 4 Nov. 2022
• But at top volumes, the DSP kicks in and really thins out the lows.
  — PCMAG, 30 May 2024
• The real fun kicked in when Rome got up to use his Steal-a-Vote and used it on… Kishan.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• They got married in 2015, but now the seven-year itch has kicked in and the pair are dunzo.
  — Vulture, 17 July 2023
• The Blue Raiders, in, fact, have nine players on the team who have blocked at least one kick in their career.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Two deputies went a few houses down the street from the caller and found a door that appeared to have been kicked in.
  — CBS News, 3 Aug. 2024
• But sometimes a kick in the tail is needed to help spur real change.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
• The new refund rules could kick in as soon as early next year, the people said.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Some, like one in Maryland, kick in only once the court is involved.
  — Aidan Gardiner, New York Times, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024