How to Use flying start in a Sentence

flying start

noun
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  • The meeting got off to a flying start.
  • The restaurant made a flying start by filling up on opening night.
  • The game got off to a flying start with some end to end action from the get go.
    — SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Zyan Watson got the Warhawks off to a flying start with a three-run, first-inning homer.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2022
  • The Wolverines are off to a flying start with a young team while the Cougars are looking to right the ship after a rocky start.
    — Jenna Ciccotelli, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Kennedale’s defense did not get off to a flying start this season.
    — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The Eagles boys volleyball team is off to a flying start with an 18-3 record.
    — Terry Monahan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The Americans are off to a flying start at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.
    — Paul Newberry, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2021
  • And so far, the league is off to a flying start to its quarter-century campaign.
    — Tony East, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Sheffield United have made a flying start to life in the top flight and have certainly proved their critics wrong.
    — SI.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Get it right, and the project is off to a flying start. Screw it up, and down the line there are bound to be squabbles and recriminations.
    — Fortune Staff, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Three months in, Moretton’s term is not exactly off to a flying start.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2021
  • The Heisman Trophy campaign did not get off to a flying start for Howell.
    — Adam Smith, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2021
  • So far, throughout his time in Paris, Neymar has scored three goals and made three assists in as many games, in a flying start to life in Ligue 1.
    — SI.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Hagar shouted after striking his last chord — and the race went green on a flying start.
    — John Sturbin, Dallas News, 13 June 2021
  • Taylor was in top condition and had a flying start to his season.
    — Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Di Maria got the visitors off to a flying start in the first half before Mbappé sealed the win in the 83rd minute after the home side had two players sent off.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Fiorentina got off to a flying start, taking the lead after 90 seconds.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • But Peru made a flying start to the group stage when Cubillas tore a strong Scotland side to shreds, scoring twice.
    — SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Parental dedication paid off as both careers got off to a flying start.
    — CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Stetson left two men on in that inning after Mike Spooner got things off to a flying start with a homer as the game’s second hitter.
    — Brett Friedlander, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018
  • At home, Zelenskiy had been off to a flying start since his shock election victory in April.
    — Kathleen Hunter, Bloomberg.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Business)India's first billion-dollar tech startup to go public got off to a flying start on Friday.
    — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • The sci-fi epic film, which needs to make at least $2 billion to break even, isn’t relying on a flying start à la Marvel’s superhero movies.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But challenges have prevented the railway from making a flying start with tourists.
    — Duncan Forgan, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Hoping history won’t repeat A year ago, Pleasanton got off to a flying start.
    — Terrence Thomas, ExpressNews.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Pogba had made a flying start to the season, scoring two goals and getting two assists in United's first four league games this season.
    — SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The collection was off to a flying start, with a series of knife-pleat looks that were spliced with asymmetrical attitude.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2018
  • In one of their collections, however, some male flies started to survive.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 May 2018
  • The competitors check in the with pace boat at the far end of the course and then attempt to remain in some semblance of a formation as everyone pulls into position for the flying start.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2019

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