Example sentences for: jump-start

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

  • And this flagship 60-second spot does at least as much to promote the president's family-values image as it does to jump-start that public-service campaign.

  • Desperate austerity measures failed to jump-start the economy.

  • John Travolta's empty nightclub impersonation of Bill Clinton in Primary Colors (1998) had one positive result: It gave him a jump-start on Jan Schlichtmann, the reckless personal injury lawyer at the center of A Civil Action . Travolta's Schlichtmann is much more redolent of Clinton: slick and selfish and corrupt in lots of ways but basically on the side of the angels, too proud and arrogant to change tactics when all is certainly lost.

  • The entire economy received a massive jump-start with the outbreak of the Korean War, with Japan ironically becoming the chief local supplier for an army it had battled so furiously just a few years earlier.

  • For example, he may be clinically depressed, in which case medication might jump-start a new and motivated life.


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