How to Use flying start in a Sentence

flying start

noun

• The meeting got off to a flying start.
• The restaurant made a flying start by filling up on opening night.
• The game got off to a flying start with some end to end action from the get go.
  — SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Zyan Watson got the Warhawks off to a flying start with a three-run, first-inning homer.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2022
• The Wolverines are off to a flying start with a young team while the Cougars are looking to right the ship after a rocky start.
  — Jenna Ciccotelli, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• Kennedale’s defense did not get off to a flying start this season.
  — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
• The Eagles boys volleyball team is off to a flying start with an 18-3 record.
  — Terry Monahan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The Americans are off to a flying start at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
  — Paul Newberry, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2021
• And so far, the league is off to a flying start to its quarter-century campaign.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• Sheffield United have made a flying start to life in the top flight and have certainly proved their critics wrong.
  — SI.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• Get it right, and the project is off to a flying start. Screw it up, and down the line there are bound to be squabbles and recriminations.
  — Fortune Staff, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2018
• Three months in, Moretton’s term is not exactly off to a flying start.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2021
• The Heisman Trophy campaign did not get off to a flying start for Howell.
  — Adam Smith, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2021
• So far, throughout his time in Paris, Neymar has scored three goals and made three assists in as many games, in a flying start to life in Ligue 1.
  — SI.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Hagar shouted after striking his last chord — and the race went green on a flying start.
  — John Sturbin, Dallas News, 13 June 2021
• Taylor was in top condition and had a flying start to his season.
  — Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2018
• Di Maria got the visitors off to a flying start in the first half before Mbappé sealed the win in the 83rd minute after the home side had two players sent off.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• Fiorentina got off to a flying start, taking the lead after 90 seconds.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• But Peru made a flying start to the group stage when Cubillas tore a strong Scotland side to shreds, scoring twice.
  — SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Parental dedication paid off as both careers got off to a flying start.
  — CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
• Stetson left two men on in that inning after Mike Spooner got things off to a flying start with a homer as the game’s second hitter.
  — Brett Friedlander, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018
• At home, Zelenskiy had been off to a flying start since his shock election victory in April.
  — Kathleen Hunter, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Business)India's first billion-dollar tech startup to go public got off to a flying start on Friday.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 23 July 2021
• The sci-fi epic film, which needs to make at least $2 billion to break even, isn’t relying on a flying start à la Marvel’s superhero movies.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
• Hoping history won’t repeat A year ago, Pleasanton got off to a flying start.
  — Terrence Thomas, ExpressNews.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Pogba had made a flying start to the season, scoring two goals and getting two assists in United's first four league games this season.
  — SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The collection was off to a flying start, with a series of knife-pleat looks that were spliced with asymmetrical attitude.
  — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
• In one of their collections, however, some male flies started to survive.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 May 2018
• The competitors check in the with pace boat at the far end of the course and then attempt to remain in some semblance of a formation as everyone pulls into position for the flying start.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2019
• Lukaku and Hazard will surely be gunning to get off to a flying start in front of goal, and their attacking quality should prove far too much for Panama to handle.
  — SI.com, 17 June 2018

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