How to Use square one in a Sentence

square one

noun

• They lost everything and found themselves back at square one.
• Wentz failed, both on the field and off, putting the Colts back at square one.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2022
• As for Hana, Chrissie, and Ester, the trio got into the spirt of the game from square one.
  — Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue, 21 Dec. 2017
• The decision by the CDC will not send us back to square one.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
• There was a round turret at one end of the main house and a square one at the other.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
• Now $44 million and four years later, the cars are gone and the city is back to square one.
  — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• The film sets the stakes high from square one by showing us what the reporters will try to stop.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2022
• The judges may find that the mistrial should have been granted — and bring the case all the way back to square one.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2024
• Four years after the flood, Sidney was back to square one.
  — Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
• Fire everyone, hit the draft hard and start from square one.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• Instead, Judge is back in New York, and the Giants are back at square one.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Dec. 2022
• Now, Memphis is back to square one with Morant once again on the sidelines.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• But trying to leapfrog over the next steps could send us back to square one, experts say.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2020
• In the pursuit, Pope drops the camera, damaging the tape, which brings them back to square one.
  — refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The Mean Green are back to square one in conference play and play their first two league games are at home.
  — Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 29 Sep. 2020
• The compromise pick would be to call it a sandbox, but that just takes us back to square one.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• One of the lenses should be a periscope telephoto camera — the square one.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 July 2021
• This loss probably won’t send the Mustangs back to square one.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2020
• The movie is telling us that this is square one: what poverty really looks like.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2021
• But take one or both out of the team and Everton suddenly look back to square one.
  — James Nalton, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Going back to square one may sound simple, but the tax system is rigid and rarely simple.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The point was simply to return everything to square one.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
• Successful court challenges can send a project back to square one.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• The game is starting from square one; with many of the old problems wearing a different skin.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
• Remove and eat them, and the plants will then go back to square one and produce more flowers and hence more pods to harvest — before the frost.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
• But those decisions were scrapped last year, sending the effort back to square one.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2023
• Little attention has been given to those who fail and get kicked back to square one.
  — Lillian Perlmutter, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• But when we’re not afforded this type of recognition, so many of them have to start back at square one.
  — The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2023
• Lexus chose to trim its sleek two-plus-two from the fabric of square one rather than snipping at the fine quilting of its chunkier four doors.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 26 June 2020
• That deal sits at square one, the same tough starting point other presidents faced.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 18 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024