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Example sentences for: started

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

Once the terms of Russia's involvement in the Kosovo peacekeeping force had been agreed Monday, the Russian press started to worry about the financial effects of the country's participation.
Mehta: "I started saying to myself compulsively, 'I wish Mr. Shawn would ring,' at the oddest times of the day or night.
An IV drip would be started after exposure to the spores.
Dukakis hadn't started the state program that allowed prisoners like Horton, who were serving life sentences without parole, to take furloughs--that would have been Dukakis' Republican predecessor as governor of Massachusetts, Francis Sargent.
When Orrin Hatch started flapping his lips, the saliva really flew!