How to Use jump-start in a Sentence

jump-start

verb
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  • This mid-line stop disrupts the flow of the song and jump-starts the flow of our tears.
    — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Getting outside clears the mind and jump-starts the body for the day.
    — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 11 July 2024
  • The winter meetings are the time to jump-start that process.
    — Jared Wyllys, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Though his first film was Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Rush Hour is the movie that gave him a jump-start.
    — EW.com, 29 June 2024
  • Her schedule got jump-started by that near miss at the 2023 Pan Am Games.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Now the country's leaders are firing up a new round of plans to jump-start growth.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Atlanta wanted to run up and down the floor, jump-starting its offense on the fast break.
    — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • One-time state funding of $243 million would jump-start the program.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Patzer pushed for 15 years to jump-start the data collection process but said she was stymied by red tape.
    — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Charlotte jumped ahead in the top of the fourth when Brandon Stahlman jump-started the offense with a solo homer to right field.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • Fringed Coats Princess Eugenie also helped jump-start the fringed coat craze in late 2022.
    — Brittany Natale, Woman's Day, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In the case of the Mandelbrot set, computers helped to jump-start an entire field.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Both incumbents trailed in the polls and proposed the debates to jump-start their campaigns.
    — Frederic J. Frommer, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • There are many places in the world that never had telephones by wire and jump-started to mobile data.
    — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Will the Buffalo Bills’ signing of Leonard Floyd jump-start the edge-rusher market?
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • The data jump-started a big bond price rally, meaning yields fell.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The items on this list sound nice to liberal ears: Defeat Hamas, free the hostages, capsize Netanyahu’s coalition, end the war, and jump-start the peace process.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The Rangers outscored Baltimore by 10 in the three-game sweep that jump-started their run to a World Series victory.
    — Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
  • Taking at-bats at DH, this is the season that also jump-starts his career as a hitter.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Apple is trying to jump-start AirPods sales after a few soft years.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The first, jump-started by an electric return from Zachariah Branch, stalled at the five-yard line and resulted in a field goal.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The fund’s backer had pledged that the fund would be jump-started with up to $200 million in seed capital, more than any of the other funds disclosed.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The fellowships have been around since 1974 and have helped jump-start the careers of many of today's industry leaders.
    — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Came in here hoping to get jump-started with the conditions here and the environment.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • The doc also jump-started a rebirth for recording at Shoals studios.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Past studies in mice suggest this shift in brain fueling is what jump-starts the creation of BDNF.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Friends and family rushed from near and far to help jump-start operations.
    — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Although parties at Diona are regular, the place sure knows how to jump-start a weekend with its Greek Fridays.
    — Jahnavi Bhatt, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But inserting Adams, who lived with Rodgers during the week, into the starting lineup did not jump-start the offense as New York fell to 2-5.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • He’s invested more than $800 million in long-term contract obligations to jump-start the team over the past two winters.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023

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