How to Use make a fresh/new start in a Sentence

make a fresh/new start

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  • Why would Riley or anyone else want to make a new start here?
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • This is a good time to discuss your plans with your partner or make a fresh start with a loved one.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In the event looking back is painful, give yourself permission to make a fresh start.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Or move down south and make a fresh start amid the palmetto trees and pimiento cheese?), and Celia has a lifetime to figure out and too few days in which to do it.
    Ashley Leath, Country Living, 1 Mar. 2021
  • For many of us, the start of a new year is a clean page; a chance to make a fresh start on a new or existing personal or professional goal.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The child’s father Albert, a hay, grain and hog merchant, died two years later, and his widow Edna moved with Lucille to make a new start in Oregon.
    Leo Deluca, Scientific American, 10 June 2021
  • Walker's story might strike a chord with other players considering Michigan State as a program to make a fresh start.
    Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
  • The breakup of Berlusconi’s coalition in 2011, when the euro-zone crisis forced his resignation, created an opportunity for its far-right partner to make a fresh start.
    Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Riseborough’s dynamic performance as an addict reckoning with her choices and looking to make a fresh start is the kind of big turn that, more often than not, wins acting Oscars.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • When handled well, turnover at the top levels of a company allows the team to make a fresh start with key stakeholders, including customers, partners and the investment community.
    Curtis Sparrer, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • After graduating from UConn last spring with his degree in urban and community studies, Gilbert decided to make a fresh start.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • That big list of council candidates, together with fresh faces running for mayor, gave Taylor City Hall a big chance in Tuesday's election to make a fresh start after spending years under the cloud of corruption charges.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The tone was more uncertain and anxious, reflecting the show’s initial premise—an unmarried woman, 30ish, coming off a romantic breakup, moves to Minneapolis to make a fresh start.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2020
  • In it, Rona, a married Norwegian women given up for dead after an accident in Patagonia, determines to make a fresh start, leaving her old life and family behind.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
  • After suffering a string of audacious attacks, Tehran faces an agonizing choice: embracing hard-liner demands for swift retaliation or trying to make a fresh start with the Biden administration.
    New York Times, 29 Nov. 2020

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