How to Use starter in a Sentence

starter

1 of 2 noun

• The car's starter needs to be replaced.
• The team is playing only five regular starters.
• The fan vote accounts for 50% of the vote for starters.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
• For starters, the rights to the movie reverted back to the band.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
• For starters, how are you supposed to use the square end of the board vs. the pointy end?
  — Helen Carefoot, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
• For starters, the child might be stressed by the demands of the classroom.
  — Pamela Kruger, Parents, 18 Dec. 2023
• The addition of Allen still leaves the Guardians short a starter.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• King doesn’t know if the Yankees see him as a starter for 2024.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• That means the starters are playing about 80% of the game, or close to 32 minutes apiece.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2024
• For starters, her kids have an elf on the shelf that visits them.
  — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2023
• For starters, Hughes had to be going through the wringer.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 23 Jan. 2024
• Furphy scored 16 points and Harris added 13 to round out the starters.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• For starters, the unique nature of the story may be compelling.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 11 Jan. 2024
• Kiki Rice, the fifth starter, had eight points and 11 assists.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• The Lakers’ starters scored all but two points of the team’s scoring total.
  — Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2024
• Two came from the first two A’s batters to step to the plate against Giants starter Spencer Howard, who’s no stranger to the long ball.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Jackson, 27, went on to have a strong four-year stint with the Bills as a role player and part-time starter.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2024
• Senior Jay Rudolph, a starter at one of the Aztecs’ two tight end positions, has left the team.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2023
• For starters, Amazon shares are up 17 percent this year to date.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• Mayden debuted as the starter last year against Hawaii and passed for 322 yards.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Of the 12 Belmont starters sired by Tapit, in addition to the four wins, there have been two seconds and two thirds.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• For starters, she's been focused on building strength for years.
  — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 1 June 2023
• For starters, a comfortable footbed is crucial since the balls of your feet make contact with that area the most.
  — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2023
• For starters, the hotel is set in the Elqui Valley on the southern fringe of the Atacama Desert.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2023
• The classic wings logo, for starters, is shown debossed on the collar overlay of the AJ1 High.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
• The former Raiders starter, 32, admitted the Big Easy has been anything but for him.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
• The Orioles’ catcher’s next visit there could be as an All-Star starter.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2023
• For starters, the red French tips perfectly match her red lipstick.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 21 Dec. 2023
• Lassiter is a two-year starter in the SEC despite being a true junior.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
• Adams was a two-year starter for the Illini and was voted team captain his senior season.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2024

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starter

2 of 2 adjective

• Much has been written about the death of the starter home.
  — Bymegan Leonhardt, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• It’s not a bad idea, but for two reasons, a non-starter.
  — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2022
• There are a lot of guys that became bench players first and then earned the starter role.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2024
• This set comes with the wireless hub, plus three starter cameras.
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• For the second straight week, Dallas took the field without starter Tyler Smith.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• More than a third of the nation's starter homes were bought in cash in February, Redfin found.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The new cam doesn't have a decompression lobe, so the starter motor has to fight to fire the engine.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 5 Feb. 2023
• The season earned him a starting job with the Jets in 2020, which is still the only full-time starter role of his career.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2023
• Most buyers’ ticket into that life is the starter home.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Most games of this style have a starter box and can then be expanded with cards bought in booster packs.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Encourage her to give it some thought and come back to you with ideas, and offer her some starter ideas as well.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• The e-motor on the ’box also acts as the starter motor and a generator.
  — WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
• And Carrie’s starter home turns out to be her forever home.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
• The difference in play between starter Timberlake and the version that comes off the bench is night and day.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
• Chief among them is a shortage of new, affordable starter homes.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The starter kit, which costs $55, will be available to buy online in January.
  — Craig Harris, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
• So, just because your career didn’t take off at the starter pistol doesn’t mean the race is already over.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• That left millennials and Gen Zers with the scraps of starter homes left on the market and mortgage rates that hadn’t been seen in decades.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• The starter kit is typically $9, and this deal gets you a four-pack of replacement heads.
  — Haley Sprankle Gear Team, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
• The Swiss cheese plant, named for its fun holey appearance, is a great starter plant for bedrooms.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 23 Aug. 2022
• Judge was fanned three times by starter Shane Bieber and was one of Trevor Stephan’s four strikeout victims in four batters faced.
  — Pete Caldera, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2022
• But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the condition was a non-starter.
  — Katerina Ang, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2022
• Limited listings and still-rising prices have caused sales of starter homes to drop 17% year over year in June.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• This starter kit allows kids to play in a group or autonomously while learning.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• This starter model is a fine choice for anyone cutting their teeth in the world of DIY home improvement.
  — Tony Carrick, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2023
• Some buffers come in a starter package, with a few pads as part of the selection of accessories.
  — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2023
• The starter pack comes with a slim camera (choose from multiple colors) and some film to get started right away.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
• When buying seeds or starter plants, find ones that have a short growing cycle to match the climate in Michigan.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2023
• One of her jobs is to create starter mounds for inspiration.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• And as a nice little bonus, there are four starter ink cartridges included.
  — Georgie Peru, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024