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Example sentences for: began

How can you use “began” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A tape of Baroque music began, the mumbling stopped, and on came the procession of ravishing visions.
I began hoping to do something with either the war or the president's contempt citation, and eager to use "I give the headline; you give the lead," or "I give the answer; you give the question," or "I give the caption; you describe the photo," three nice forms we've not used lately.
Then Schmidt retreats from us, lost in a cloth that Begley throws over him, and what began as a sharp examination of public restraint and private release dwindles into a self-pity which seems not merely Schmidt's, but Begley's.
The tradition began in 1952, when teams needed eight playoff victories to win the Stanley Cup.
Professor Trucios-Haynes began her legal career in the litigation department of the New York firm Rosenman & Colin.