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Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of start.
Examples
“Well, when four boys get caught doing something they're not sure they're supposed to be doing, they don't know what to do or what to say, and sometimes they start talking right away to explain _why_ they are doing what they're doing -- which is what _we_ started to do -- that is we _started_ to, but all of us talking at once didn't make sense, so we stopped.”
“The Negro farmer started behind, started in debt.”
“Then after that, as the label started consolidating, Herb and Jerry left and everything kind of changed.”
“So then the label started growing, what acts came on board?”
“No one, though, had explained to him the need to apply for a scholarship, and a few weeks before the term started he found himself with a letter of admission but no money to pay the school fees or even to get to Johannesburg.”
“For Erhart, Sivarajah and Carol LeDoux who won a special election in 2010 and is finishing a term started by her late husband, Scott LeDoux, this was going to be an election year anyway, with or without redistricting.”
“The label started in New York and they have a history of putting out a lot of the downtown, avant-garde musicians.”
“The election is being held to fill the remaining 14 months on the term started by Democrat Joe Manchin, who resigned to become a U.S. senator last year.”
“Just as his name started to get recognition, tragedy struck in 1985 when the restaurant burnt down.”
“Like those two earlier Darlington wins, Hamlin started from the pole and led much of the race.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘started’.
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The Bindery
A list of bookbinding terms and phrases, for assembling new or repairing/reassembling old books.
perfect binding, animal glue, spine, textblock, polyvinyl acetate, double-fan adhesi..., board, backing, rounding, bone, book cloth, pasteboard and 270 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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You Scared Me
frightened, jumped, skiddish, caught by surprise, freaked, startle, fear spasm, fear monger, eeek!, egad zeus!, yikes, started
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Stuffie: Git in here!
Things you get.
me, mail, it, up, started, ready to go, trashed, lucky, fired, good grades, hot babes, sick and 41 more...
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