How to Use start-up in a Sentence

start-up

noun

• The first is the Build grant for early-stage start-ups.
  — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2025
• What are some of the early tasks of this ‘start-up’ phase?
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
• As with any start-up, there’s no track record to refer to.
  — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2023
• The fast pace and hunger of a start-up setting isn’t lost on Okmanas.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Nov. 2024
• Woosnam had spent four years at Villa but left in ’66 as part of the Chiefs’ start-up project.
  — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
• Two in five, or 41%, struggled to access start-up funds to get their business off the ground.
  — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• By his own admission, his first start-up, Loopt, was a bust.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• The default start-up mode is GT, which makes 80 percent of the power and torque available.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
• The firm won a best new start-up award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
• Of course, this is no ordinary sedan, and no start-up restoration house.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
• The cost of doing a start-up business is more than ever before.
  — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
• In both the full video and the clip on Facebook, Thompson mentions grants for a clean energy start-up.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
• Armstrong started her blog in 2001 while working at a tech start-up.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 10 May 2023
• But in the same meeting, Shedd also described TTS as a failing start-up.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
• In the aftermath, start-ups tried restricting sales of their stock.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• Samii had just spent the night playing poker with tech friends from a start-up company.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
• Many start-up distillers, eager to get a product on the shelf to sell while whiskeys age, aim to make a near-tasteless vodka.
  — Ryan J. Rusak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
• Michael then went on to work at aerospace start-ups, including SpaceX, in and around the Los Angeles area.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• And dozens of start-ups pitched AI assistants, avatars, coaches, and tutors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
• Jo, a trans man, is one of the leading figures in the New York start-up arena, a great speaker, mentor, activist.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
• Cocoon, Sealy’s answer to the many mattress start-ups that have popped up in the past few years, is a worthy competitor.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 4 Oct. 2023
• Amazon is a far cry from the book e-tailer start-up founded in Bezos’s Seattle-area garage in 1994.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Picking the right one depends on the nature of your business (among other things), since what works for a tech start-up might not fly for a food truck.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
• Fubo launched in 2015 as a start-up focused on streaming sports programming.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• These are the models of well-being promoted by Fella Health, a start-up that prescribes buzzy weight-loss drugs to men.
  — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• A number of start-ups, including Ezra and Neko Health, also offer full-body scans.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Time management has been a huge part of building this start-up alongside my schoolwork.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 25 May 2023
• Its mission is to ensure that youth leave the clubs ready for a career, a start-up business and homeownership.
  — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
• The search giant has big investments in the AI space, pumping $3 billion into start-up Anthropic, which produces the Claude chatbot.
  — Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 8 Mar. 2025
• Golden visas are programs where some countries offer temporary or permanent residence in exchange for investment in real estate, start-ups, or paying a lot of tax.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025