How to Use start out in a Sentence

start out

phrasal verb

• In Columbus, the night will start out wet, but then clear.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 10 May 2024
• The series did not start out as a project for McEntire.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
• Most books tell you to start out doing this 10 times and work your way up from there.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
• The show started out with a laugh track but scrapped it for Season Two.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
• The 15-petal count blooms start out bright yellow and fade to a deep pink-cherry red.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• And the tempo of the song starts out slow but then gets very fast very quickly … boom boom boom.
  — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• This starts out toasty and bright, with a crisp apple tartness.
  — Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
• The unions had started out at forty per cent, then went to thirty-five per cent.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• In this movie, Roy Cohn starts out strong and his health and strength decline throughout.
  — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024
• The first inning started out strong: The Yankees walked Ohtani.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
• This project started out two years ago as a three-minute salute to Williams on his 90th birthday.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
• The Ukrainian boxer started out fast against Fury, but the British star owned Usyk in the middle rounds.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 May 2024
• That meant the pristine J. Jill T-shirt style dress that started out at $12 was only $4 that day.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
• The mood on my bus, which had started out lighthearted and jovial, began to turn.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
• The Flex starts out much the same as the standard The Bigger Carry-on, able to hold lots of gear in an overhead-bin-friendly size.
  — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• When Simpson started out the year, her goal was to win a state championship.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Just to start out: the federal EV tax credit is still alive and kicking.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
• The finale starts out with a montage of the cast members yelling at one another.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2024
• That wasn’t an option with the Wild One, though, which started out life as a 1:10 scale RC car that kids could build themselves.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
• The poll also suggests that Harris starts out free of some of the same baggage that burdened Biden.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
• Craft house started out in 2016 as a food truck serving burgers made from a blend of fresh-ground chuck, short rib and brisket beef.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Yet what started out with so much promise somehow took a dark turn.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
• The cookbook started out as a housewarming gift for my sons.
  — Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2024
• But 2024 will at least start out very strong, especially in the first quarter.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• His colleagues were men in their fifties and sixties who’d started out in radio.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
• Ads are making a comeback in other tech products that didn’t start out that way.
  — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Your child starts out sitting in the infant trike, then learns to steer, ride, and, finally, is off zooming!
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 11 July 2023
• When All Natural was first starting out, they were signed to a label called Wild Pitch.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2024
• The route from Todd Lake starts out in shady pine forest before crossing through wide open alpine meadows and over sparkling clear creeks.
  — Haley Nelson | , oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• William Hawk The idea of a revenge narrative in albums isn't new, but the concept of a character who starts out seeking revenge and then changes her ways is pretty different.
  — James Factora, Them, 16 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025