Use started in a sentence
Sentences starting with started
- Started to climb (on foot) at 8.30 this morning among the grandest peaks! [5]
Sentences ending with started
- Think the thing you do is better than what anybody else does, and you're well started. [11]
- I thought you wouldn't object to a little advance on your 'Every Other Week' work till you kind of got started. [8]
- There, I begin with seventeen, that is where I started. [10]
- Mr. Crewe paused, with his forefinger on the page, and fixed a glassy eye on the remote neighbourhood in the back seats where the disturbance had started. [9]
- At length I went and laid my hands upon his shoulder, and at my touch he started. [9]
- When the sun was approaching the western horizon the travellers started. [10]
- Jacques added an urging word, and after a time she started. [11]
- So he lit up his lantern, and got his saddle-bags, and we started. [5]
- So we filled two large tin canteens with water (since we were not acquainted with the locality of the spring said to exist on the large island), and started. [5]
- I mean, get to work on your statistics, and don't burn so much kindling getting your fire started. [5]
Short sentences using started
- Mrs. Crozier started visibly. [11]
- Mrs. Garvin started up hysterically. [9]
- Instantly he started towards Detricand. [11]
- I started forward, then faltered. [11]
- He started at the word. [11]
- We mounted and started. [5]
- And so we started. [5]
- The old man started. [11]
- And he again started reckoning. [2]
- Toward ten I started below. [5]
Sentences containing started two or more times
- Another man started up; the bridging bough was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished the bridge. [5]
- I started her out once, sir--Colonel Bilgewater, you recollect that animal perfectly well --I started her out about thirty or thirty-five yards ahead of the awfullest storm I ever saw in my life, and it chased us upwards of eighteen miles! [5]
- Each time the commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward in exactly the same manner. [2]
- Every man's business being assigned him, I started to Natchez on foot, having sold my horse in New Orleans,--with the intention of stealing another after I started. [5]
More example sentences with the word started in them
- Five minutes after you left me they all started for your house, and Lula Chandos said it was the quickest cure of a headache she had ever seen. [9]
- Didn't I warn you fellows that Bedloe Hubbell meant business long before he started in? [9]
- So Philippus had yielded, and had started on his journey with very mixed feelings. [10]
- They had not yet said anything to each other, except how happy, how glad, how thankful they were to have each other again; then a sentinel passed, and she started up, exclaiming anxiously: "So late, so late; Zorrillo will be waiting! [10]
- We started several years too late. [9]
- It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
- It started thirty year ago, or som'ers along there. [5]
- The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
- There was a worthless vine that (or who) started up about midway between a grape-trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet from each, but a little nearer the trellis. [4]
- He allowed to work her up and get her started and then leave her alone and let her burn herself out. [5]
- With a persuasive word he started them away. [11]
- Jen started forward, woman-like, to check the action, but drew back, for she saw heroic measures might be necessary to bring him to consciousness. [11]
- He started down without waiting to get it loose, made the trip successfully, and was promptly hustled outside the limit-rope by the police. [5]
- He started forward without a word, but came back again and caught her hand. [11]
- He again turned with tender solicitude to the sufferer, but instantly started to his feet, for the gates were flung wide open and the light of torches and lanterns streamed into the court. [10]
- We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. [5]
- The countess looked with sad and sternly serious eyes at Prince Andrew when he talked to Natasha and timidly started some artificial conversation about trifles as soon as he looked her way. [2]
- Marie started forward with her hands on her temples and a sharp cry. [11]
- She was blazing with eagerness to see one of those already celebrated murderers, and she started on the errand at once. [5]
- Ursula started homeward, with Agnes in her arms, and I said I wished I had her privilege of seeing Marget. [5]
- She started up with a vehement movement, and exclaimed, in angry excitement: "Seleukus might have prevented such an outrage! [10]
- I was very willing to see how this enterprise would turn out, so I dressed, and we started to his lodgings. [5]
- I found the will and started with it to M'sieu' Fournel. [11]
- She screamed aloud,--so wildly that Myrtle lifted her head from the pillow against which she had rested it, and started forward. [6]
- I nursed his wife, you know--and he started in to tell me how he was coming up to Foxon Falls to shoot Mr. Pindar because he'd closed down the works rather than recognize the union. [9]
- Was it he who started the old rumor which made such havoc that afternoon? [9]
- No one knew who started it, but it probably was Billy Bagshot, who had had more than a double portion of drink, and was seized with a desire to celebrate his thanks to Connor thus. [11]
- We started a whispered conversation, but suddenly Clarence broke off and said: "What is that? [5]
- Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
- The terror with which she started up at his call bore no favourable testimony to her good conscience, but she had already recovered her bold unconcern when he imperiously demanded to know what had become of lame Kuni. [10]
- When the gale, which preceded the thunderstorm, blew leaves and straws in through the open window she started violently, imagining that Herr Ortlieb had come to call her to account and her trial was to begin. [10]
- The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
- Finally she asked whether any one else was concerned in Ledscha's flight; and when she learned that a Gallic bridge-builder accompanied the fugitive wife, she again started up as if frantic, exclaiming: "Yes, to Nemesis with the gold! [10]
- The procession ends, where it started, in the patron's church; and there his image is set up under a gorgeous canopy of crimson and gold, to hear high mass, and some of the choicest solos, choruses, and bravuras from the operas. [4]
- I knew well where I was, and at once started off in a northwesterly direction, toward the St. Charles River, making for a certain farmhouse above the town. [11]
- We started out, when we turned our backs on the Old World, with the declaration that all men are free, and entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of an agreeable climate. [4]
- It had been, when we started, one of the most prominent points in our projected tour. [4]
- Don't you remember, when we started to Niagara the last time, how everybody seemed middle-aged and commonplace; and when we got there there were no evident brides; nothing but elderly married people? [8]
- It was only when we had got into the carriage and started for the house and she turned to me her face from which the veil had been thrown back that I realized what a sublime meaning it all had for her. [9]
- The arrangement adopted when they started, that the officer prisoners should be kept separate from the rest, had long since been abandoned. [2]
- It was sunset when they started, and they had not gone a thousand yards before some of the mutineering ships opened fire on the Ariadne. [11]
- One snowy night, when the report was due, I started out, sadly wondering how I was to get it. [5]
- One snowy night when the report was due, I started out sadly wondering how I was going to get it. [5]
- And after dinner, when he started talking with a ridicule that was a thinly disguised bitterness about the Citizens Union and their preparations for a campaign I left him and went to bed. [9]
- The Ry started when he saw Jethro Fawe; then he made a motion as though he would seize the intruder, who was too dumbfounded to flee; but he recovered himself, and gazed up at the open window. [11]
- He sorter started when he heard me, for he hadn't seen me before. [7]
- Before I realized what he was doing, Nick, instead of retracing his steps towards the house, started forward. [9]
- He thought of what had happened that very morning before he started for the hills. [11]
- But Eva knew what had befallen the Eysvogel wares and, although she did not lack courage, she started in terror as she heard the tramp of horses' hoofs and the clank of weapons, not from the city, but within the forest. [10]
- Whereupon the proofs were started in his direction. [5]
- Partings all round were made, and, after some injunctions to Mrs. Falchion and Justine Caron from myself as to preventives against illness, the rest of us started for Sunburst. [11]
- To her cousin were given the most explicit directions for his care, and after she had started for the train she returned to give further injunctions. [4]
- The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
- When they got well started, I couldn't see, myself, how even the corpse could stand it. [5]
- But this cold weather was too warm for us; so we started to Darjeeling, in the Himalayas--a twenty-four hour journey. [5]
- Before we started, we stooped beside a brook that leaped lightly down the ravine, and drank a little rum and water. [11]
- But the minute we started to skip out the professor says, "No, you don't! [5]
- After all this we started for a luncheon at All Souls, but had to wait (impatiently) for H. R. H. to rest herself, while our resting was done standing. [6]
- The next morning we started back to the old camp, but while out a long way from shore, so great a storm came up that we dared not try to land. [5]
- Then the king--however, we have started something fresh since you left--our paper has. [5]
- In the morning we broke camp and started off for the strange place which we hoped to capture. [9]
- Here is the way I started in on him. [5]
- Looking at his watch he saw that, if they got a cab, they would get to the station before the train started, and he wondered how he could retard Barouche. [11]
- The earl and Washington started on the sorrowful errand, talking as they walked. [5]
- Where the light was two men had started to their feet when the crash came. [11]
- This little journal was started something like twenty years ago. [4]
- Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started in to climb the tree----" "What, the bull? [5]
- Sirona knew what was happening; she started and cried out, pointing to the senator's door, "For all the gods' sake! [10]
- After the toast was finished, with an emphasised assumption of weariness, and a hint of a long yarn on the morrow, he picked up his blanket and started for the room where all were to sleep. [11]
- This great building was filled, like this great theatre, with rejoicing villagers, and my friend and I started down the centre aisle. [5]
- If asleep, he was evidently dreaming, for now and then he started, or his body twitched, and a muttering came from beneath the hat. [11]
- I thought it was dropped with the Second Empire; but you have started a new dispensation--evidemment, evidemment. [11]
- When the play was done, a youth in his shirt-sleeves started around with a small copper saucer to make a collection. [5]
- Ameni, who too, was close behind the heart, started too and looked round on the author of this hideous laugh. [10]
- The afternoon sun was beating in over the threshold as he reached it, and, at his footstep, a figure started forward from the shadow of a corner. [11]
- I understood he was awful mad at the way the thing started off, and wanted to give you a piece of his mind, when he got at you. [8]
- That law trial was a slow business--appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding. [5]
- They started for ward, for his eyes were closed. [9]
- For instance, he wanted the war parties (called) in before he started unarmed upon his mission of peace. [5]
- We had a visit with my niece in the parlor, then started for the trolley again. [5]
- After a personal visit to St. Saviour's, this biggest creditor and financial potentate--M. Mornay--said that if Jean Jacques had been started right and trained right, he would have been a "general in the financial field, winning big battles. [11]
- He started almost violently, and turned round. [11]
- The man stirred violently in his sleep, cried out, and started up. [11]
- They say at Vilray that you have all you can do to keep out of the Bankruptcy Court, and that--" Jean Jacques started, flushed, and seemed about to get angry; but she put things right at once. [11]
- Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town. [5]
- Tortured by rage, vexation, and sincere distress, she said in a complaining voice, while the tears started to her eyes: "But what is the meaning of all this? [10]
- At the third verse he started up, and an eager, sun-burned face peered from the half-darkness at the singer. [11]
- But if Austen Vane ever gets started, there'll be trouble. [9]
- Hospitably he drew us out of the wind and rain into his little hut, and sat us down beside the stove, cheerfully informing us that, only the night before, the gale had blown his door in, and his roof had started for the German lines. [9]
- Mr. Fanning started us off for the walk with pockets filled with sweetmeats, which we nibbled on the way back. [9]
- The Paladin made us all jealous the first night, for when he got fairly started on those battles of his he had everything to himself, and there was no use in anybody else's trying to get any attention. [5]
- The water-wagtail started up, hastily smoothing her hair and casting an evil glance at her rival, "the other," the supplanter who had basely betrayed her under the sycamores; she clenched her little fist as she saw Paula watching Orion's retreating form with beaming eyes. [10]
- They fixed me up, and we started south. [11]
- Finally she started up, and said she had found a way out. [5]
- The pioneer started up, and cried, "We have reached the end! [10]
- The fawn started up with an anxious bleat: the doe turned; she came back; she couldn't leave it. [4]
- Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]
- The 'Lacey' started up the river two days behind the 'Pennsylvania. [5]
- Then we started up the machine slowly, by hand, and fastened our eyes on the space-selecting pins. [5]
- She started, sat up straight in her chair, and looked at him indignantly. [11]
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