How to Use kick-start in a Sentence

kick-start

verb

• This round of the menu was kick-started with the bread course.
  — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Ahead, find some of the best clothing care tips to kick-start spring.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
• The Olympics can kick-start projects that have sat dormant on a city’s to-do list.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
• That's a 20-to-1 payout to kick-start your bankroll in the coming days.
  — Tim Van Straten, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• Ohio State did not take too kindly to the move and the brawl kick-started.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2024
• Lyon then turned the key and tried to kick-start the ancient machine to life.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• His father helped kick-start Martin’s path to the majors.
  — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• The 18 Bakeries in Paris A few of our favorites to kick-start your sweet adventures.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 July 2024
• The 18 Bakeries in Paris A few of our favorites to kick-start your sweet adventures.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2024
• SpaceX’s goal is to use these missions to kick-start its own era of human spaceflight.
  — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
• Plus, with the holidays right around the corner, now is the perfect time to kick-start your gift shopping.
  — Amber Love Bond, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2024
• Channing Collins kick-started the Lake Ridge bats with a solo home run leading off the bottom of the third.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• To kick-start puberty and calm the haters, Ritchson threw himself into the gym.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• The idea is to identify actions that will kick-start your learning in a way that’s easy to add into your day.
  — Helen Tupper sarah Ellis, Harvard Business Review, 9 Sep. 2024
• Fill your plate with more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and beans, and kick-start your day with a high-fiber cereal.
  — Women's Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• Neither runner wound up scoring, and the Giants won the game in extra innings to kick-start a four-game sweep.
  — Dan Brown, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
• Mr Stone’s discovery kick-started one of the most heart-wrenching puzzles in the world of horse racing.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• What's next: The vote kick-starts the full design process for the project, which will include community input.
  — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
• Eleven years after her prison time, Justin Bieber helped kick-start her reinvention.
  — Ana Calderone, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
• His film, winner of three Oscars, kick-started a crop of American movies filmed in Rome.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
• The macrophage eats the virus, creating antigens that kick-start T-cells, which then activate B-cells to help white blood cells attack the cold virus.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 June 2024
• At a two-day summit to kick-start action to achieve the goals, Guterres pointed to grim findings in a U.N. report in July.
  — Edith M. Lederer, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• However McMillan, who describes the study as the biggest of its kind so far in Britain, hopes the findings will kick-start more research.
  — Helier Cheung, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting a reaction.
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
• Patterson picked up his fifth foul with just over seven minutes to play, kick-starting the Owls’ comeback.
  — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Hightower praised Carter for bouncing back with a 55-yard kickoff return to kick-start a late Bears touchdown drive.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 26 Nov. 2024
• That means the central government will have fewer tools available to kick-start the economy.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• This self-watering smart garden is equipped with a water reservoir, LED lamp, and basil starter pods to kick-start your green thumb journey.
  — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 20 July 2023
• The movement appeared to be kick-started this week when the Food and Drug Administration banned red food dye due to potential cancer risk.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025
• News of the riches would soon spread beyond across the United States, kick-starting a wave of mass migration to California that boosted the nation’s economy, reshaped the landscape and altered its culture.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2025