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
• 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
• The unions had started out at forty per cent, then went to thirty-five per cent.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The school system also started out lower in reading and fell back slightly more than the state as a whole.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• So Rachel started out her day by chatting with Susan Noles.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• The Fever started out sloppy, turning the ball over eight times just in the first quarter — leading to seven early points from the Sky.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2023
• What starts out as a pot here or there can rapidly become an at-home garden center.
  — Helen Bradshaw, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• For a sport that started out with people simply adding weight to the end of ski boats to create a wave, wakesurfing has come a long way in a short amount of time.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• There, the vessel started out under a different name: the David Campbell, in honor of the City’s late fire chief.
  — Jessie Sheldon, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Wednesday will start out chilly, with temperatures in the mid-30s.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2024
• There was a story there about someone who started out a certain way, had very specific ideas and dreams, fears, insecurities and family issues, and then something happened.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024