How to Use bootstrap in a Sentence

bootstrap

1 of 2 noun

• Just gotta pick yourself up by your bootstraps and move on.
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2018
• Lift your genome up by its bootstraps and get cracking.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 June 2017
• In his work, Baumann applies the bootstrap to the beginning of the universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019
• Though the sentiment was in the right place, the weekend got off to a rocky start, and on the second day pulled itself up from its bootstraps.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Billboard, 11 June 2018
• Can’t pull yourself up by the bootstraps when centuries-old systems are designed to keep you from the damn boot.
  — Thomas Page McBee, Teen Vogue, 26 Mar. 2019
• The US, for its part, fosters more of a bootstrap spirit than most countries in Europe.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2017
• The statue calls out to families who want to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019
• The legal market in our state needs a real bootstrap approach from our state.
  — A.j. Herrington, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• Major League Baseball yanked Denver up by the bootstraps.
  — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
• Forty years of stagnant wages later, many Americans have come to believe that the rules are stacked against them and that the up-by-your-bootstraps story is a myth.
  — Andrea Flynn, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
• In theory, anyone can lift themselves up by their proverbial bootstraps and live the dream.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2020
• How did bootstrap-pulling go from a ridiculous idea to an American ideal?
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
• But despite his flawed methodology, Fryer is a darling among the smart, white elite who point to him as a bootstrap-puller.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 24 May 2018
• The informal rally harked back to his days as an up-by-the-bootstraps populist and Islamist leader who often spoke from the tops of buses.
  — Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 17 July 2016
• Even so, this remains a scrappy, bootstraps racing league.
  — Mitchell Nicholson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2018
• The Trump who complained about lazy Puerto Ricans who needed to pick themselves up by their bootstraps rather than drain the Treasury was the familiar race-baiter.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 4 Oct. 2017
• Supplements are the self-help aisle—pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, living your best life—made manifest in pills and powders.
  — WIRED, 31 July 2023
• Or maybe also like an American ideal of pulling up yourself by your bootstraps.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Sep. 2023
• His biography does not have any of the bootstraps appeal of a Lyndon Johnson, or even Mr. Cruz, the son of immigrant parents.
  — Michael Tackett, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Tyler Perry, himself somebody who made his own way, pulled himself up by the bootstraps, has offered Geoffrey a job.
  — Fox News, 5 Sep. 2018
• In a bootstrap company, the founders retain the majority of the equity in the company.
  — Bill Fahey, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Here in bootstraps America, happiness is a state many moms find difficult to achieve.
  — Olivia Campbell, Good Housekeeping, 8 July 2019
• As this story illustrates, the passion for most bootstrap CDAOs lies in making the business better; the data are the vehicle for doing that.
  — Joel Shapiro, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• For over 15 years, Richard Montañez told a tale of bootstrap hustle so incredible that few ever doubted it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2021
• Bill Clinton pulled himself up by his bootstraps and was a young, exciting governor.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 12 Apr. 2018
• The successful Latino pulls himself up by his bootstraps, loves and serves his country, and seeks to enrich it with his contributions.
  — J.p Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Is a market of 80 vendors a bootstrap response to economic hardship?
  — John Leland Lexi Parra, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• This case asks whether such a bootstrap can really subject him to deportation.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 24 May 2017
• These are literally people who are pulling themselves up from their bootstraps.
  — Alex V. Hernandez, Chicago Reader, 19 May 2017
• But dos Santos’ up-from-her-bootstraps narrative never stood up to much scrutiny.
  — Ben Hallman, Quartz Africa, 19 Jan. 2020

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bootstrap

2 of 2 verb

• To bootstrap the process, the first-year projects come with a theme and a structure that helps the students write their learning agreement.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2020
• Seek investment and go big to go home or bootstrap your way to success?
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• Many business owners love to bootstrap their business not to take on debt.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• With their relentless drive, the couple was able to bootstrap CurlMix to over a million dollars in sales in just 12 months.
  — Essence, 18 Jan. 2022
• Hence this is not the ideal business where leaders should try and bootstrap the initiative.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Once a phone is added, people use it to bootstrap each smart home device connected to the account.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
• There’s no correct way to bootstrap a business, go with your instinct and ignore the naysayers.
  — Alison Coleman, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• So Havre pushed Choreful to the top of his to-do list, took time off from his day job to bootstrap that launch into reality.
  — Michaella Huck, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Carefully manage the cash and bootstrap your business to avoid business failure in the first couple of years.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• This was a common way to bootstrap a new cryptocurrency during the 2017 ICO boom, and the Kik ruling could slam the door shut on this method for getting a new blockchain project off the ground.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2020
• She’s also learned that fundraising is not the only mark of achievement for a new business, and knowing how to bootstrap is valuable.
  — Aisha S Gani, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Nelson, who has been in the race the longest, has already traveled to all 72 counties in an attempt to bootstrap his way to the nomination.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2021
• Can’t free enterprise bootstrap truly world-changing new tech all on its own?
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Jan. 2021
• But most new entrepreneurs don’t have this luxury and need to bootstrap their development and growth.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Evolution doesn’t proceed according to a plan, and often has to bootstrap its way out of problems of its own making.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021
• Today’s founders are in a better position to bootstrap their business than those of us who launched companies 20 years ago.
  — Peter Pezaris, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2022
• This feedback loop also allows the AI to quickly bootstrap itself out of a nearly blank-slate state of ignorance.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
• The plan from Gates’ army of lawyers and PR handlers seemed to be to wield his image as a software wunderkind who dropped out of Harvard to bootstrap his company and went on to become the world’s richest man.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2020
• The alternative to seeking outside funding for your business is to bootstrap your way.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Blizzard is the latest example in the growing trend of nine-figure incentive programs by blockchain teams to bootstrap growth.
  — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• Tied to bootstrap narratives, success for these households is sometimes seen as seen as a bellwether for the nation’s success (or at least used as rhetoric in many U.S. elections).
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Brown left her 20-year corporate career in healthcare and insurance to bootstrap the company’s first 18 month.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The goal was to bootstrap supply side liquidity, allowing the protocols to grow.
  — Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Not everyone can bootstrap their business, and not every business should be bootstrapped.
  — Carl Rodrigues, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• Few founders have the personal wealth nor immediate revenue to bootstrap their company for long.
  — Yule Georgieva, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023
• To bootstrap, Chrome also isolates a crowdsourced list of sites where mobile users have been entering passwords most frequently.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
• Immigrants, regardless of their merit coming in, tend to bootstrap themselves up in a remarkable way.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• On top of sweat equity, Markkula sunk a substantial portion of his personal wealth into Apple and helped persuade others to bootstrap the firm.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• With luck, the income from those sales—Balsz estimates the price might range from $30 to $60 per dose—could bootstrap the rest of the company’s portfolio, which includes rights to develop the candidate as a human vaccine.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
• Crt deniers are asking us to ask this young person to bootstrap their way out of the public policies and practices that were designed to favor one race over another for generations.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 June 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024