How to Use launching pad in a Sentence

launching pad

noun

• So maybe this game won’t be a launching pad for Schwartz.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2021
• These books are a launching pad for debate, not the last word.
  — George Packer, New York Times, 14 June 2021
• This got her the job with the public library that was to be her launching pad.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• This should be a slugfest that provides the winner a big launching pad for the rest of the season.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• So what if my career was rolled back off the launching pad?
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2020
• Rosen thinks a tour could be a launching pad for a deluxe version of the new album.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022
• The search for the ideal SpaceX launching pad began more than 10 years ago.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2021
• But re-examine them through the lens of a launching pad.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
• The plan is to expand from there with launching pads on the tops of buildings and parking lots.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2023
• The forum was a launching pad for the boogaloo movement.
  — Michael Kunzelman, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• But the sector that might serve has the biggest launching pad for NFTs is gaming.
  — Robert Napoli, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• If the name sounds more like a blue-collar bar than a launching pad for the next blue-chip artist, that’s exactly the point.
  — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
• But the South is still largely seen as the launching pad for one family’s rise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• This season was supposed to be the national launching pad for Tatis and the Padres.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• And that could be just the launching pad the Wild needs to rediscover a roll before the playoffs.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
• If Broadway is the apex, then the Kennedy Center is its vital launching pad.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
• Telluride, which saw 5,000 guests, also proved to be a strong launching pad.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
• Hitler turned the 1924 trial into a launching pad for himself and the Nazi Party.
  — Sydney Walton, CNN, 16 Jan. 2021
• The Pee Wee program is a launching pad to the older divisions.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• For others, the new platform becomes a launching pad for their next big move.
  — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• And the pilot system continues to be a launching pad for new beers.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
• And that meant building a 19-foot-high capsule, rocket and launching pad.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• But the format still provides a platform that can be a launching pad for other projects.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Grateful for your support in making #Brownsville a launching pad to Mars.
  — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2021
• In terms of a launching pad for that [in season 5], the old regimes and the old world and a lot of the old players have been dismantled and destroyed [in season 4].
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• The original was simply a launching pad for the remake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• Wells’ display was the launching pad for Baltimore, but the bats did the rest in the 10-0 victory that sealed a five-game series win.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2022
• The decision reflects Biden’s long and deep pessimism about the prospects for a U.S. victory in Afghanistan, the launching pad for 9/11.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 14 Apr. 2021
• There is a lot of quality on that list, but few used a second-place finish at the Masters as a launching pad.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
• Montanaro, on the otherhand, thinks the practice can be a launching pad for good habits.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 13 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024