How to Use nonstarter in a Sentence

nonstarter

noun

• She's the leading scorer among the team's nonstarters.
• So the idea of going to tabloids in the U.K. was kind of a nonstarter.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• But even that has so far proved to be a nonstarter with the rebels.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Even one Kings player sees James-to-the-Kings as a nonstarter.
  — Michael McGough, sacbee, 25 June 2018
• That was a nonstarter for most of the Blue and White leadership.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• But the idea of taking this case to trial was a nonstarter.
  — Emily Yoffe, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2017
• But the idea of trading land for peace remains a nonstarter in Kyiv.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• In any case, scuttling the deal—a nonstarter to begin with—is no way to build trust.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 22 Sep. 2017
• That would be a nonstarter with his parents, but the teacher had an idea.
  — John D'anna, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2021
• And almost all those things are nonstarters with Democrats.
  — Z. Byron Wolf and Gregory Krieg, CNN, 11 Sep. 2017
• That’s a nonstarter, and there’s a good chance that will continue to be a nonstarter.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• The increase was a nonstarter for AT&T, Stephenson said.
  — Dallas News, 24 July 2019
• For the longest time, Democrats outside the state saw the effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom as a nonstarter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
• For a girl far too concerned about the appearance of things, the headband was a nonstarter.
  — Liz McDaniel, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2019
• Focus on the problem and the why rather than the solution and the how — the latter is a nonstarter in any sales training.
  — Susan Akbarpour, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Given all this, any new research of this brain area, seemed like a nonstarter.
  — Nico U.f. Dosenbach, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
• Of course, bathrooms are often dim, which might seem a nonstarter for plants.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• For those with a disability, the event may seem like a nonstarter.
  — Catharine Hamm, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• House Democrats have called such requirements for health care and food aid a nonstarter.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Seung Min Kim, Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
• Dizzy Dancer was declared a nonstarter in the chart and Seau was declared scratched with the notation: (gate).
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Both Trump and Pompeo insist this would be a nonstarter.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer, star-telegram, 16 Mar. 2018
• The answer back: Democrats are willing to hear his ideas, but scrapping the Obama health law is a nonstarter.
  — Time, Time, 7 Oct. 2017
• Well, Jon, first of all, these documents being out of place for six years is a nonstarter.
  — ABC News, 15 Jan. 2023
• And because nerve agents kill so quickly, any treatment that takes hours to work is a nonstarter.
  — Ian Haydon, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2017
• The maps are a nonstarter with the two Democrats, the Sykses, and likely would trigger lawsuits from voting-rights groups.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2021
• For all respect in the world for the Treasury Secretary, that was a complete nonstarter.
  — Alana Abramson, Time, 18 Apr. 2020
• But Scott, the key GOP negotiator, says that’s a nonstarter.
  — Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• For Burnt Ranch, passing a local bond is a nonstarter, because the district’s tax base is so small.
  — Ricardo Cano, SFChronicle.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• That approach is a nonstarter for Democrats in the Senate, where Republicans might also reject it, too.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• So far, many of its members have said both publicly and privately that Mastro as the new corporation counsel is a nonstarter.
  — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024