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Example sentences for: began

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Lenny Bruce began his apologia this way--and I quote from bad memory--"The continuation of crime, disease, suffering, and death is what keeps me, Albert Schweitzer, and J. Edgar Hoover in business."
The expansion of air travel began the age of mass tourism, and Greece along with the Aegean Islands became exciting destinations for northern Europeans escaping their damp, cool summers.
Francis began with the brightest young minds he could find.
After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Thus began an 800-year epoch of Christian opposition to the newly arrived Muslims.