How to Use kick-start in a Sentence

kick-start

verb
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  • This round of the menu was kick-started with the bread course.
    — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Ahead, find some of the best clothing care tips to kick-start spring.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • The Olympics can kick-start projects that have sat dormant on a city’s to-do list.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
  • That's a 20-to-1 payout to kick-start your bankroll in the coming days.
    — Tim Van Straten, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Ohio State did not take too kindly to the move and the brawl kick-started.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Lyon then turned the key and tried to kick-start the ancient machine to life.
    — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • His father helped kick-start Martin’s path to the majors.
    — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The 18 Bakeries in Paris A few of our favorites to kick-start your sweet adventures.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 July 2024
  • The 18 Bakeries in Paris A few of our favorites to kick-start your sweet adventures.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2024
  • SpaceX’s goal is to use these missions to kick-start its own era of human spaceflight.
    — Jonathan O’Callaghan, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Plus, with the holidays right around the corner, now is the perfect time to kick-start your gift shopping.
    — Amber Love Bond, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Channing Collins kick-started the Lake Ridge bats with a solo home run leading off the bottom of the third.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • To kick-start puberty and calm the haters, Ritchson threw himself into the gym.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The idea is to identify actions that will kick-start your learning in a way that’s easy to add into your day.
    — Helen Tupper sarah Ellis, Harvard Business Review, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Fill your plate with more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and beans, and kick-start your day with a high-fiber cereal.
    — Women's Health, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Neither runner wound up scoring, and the Giants won the game in extra innings to kick-start a four-game sweep.
    — Dan Brown, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Mr Stone’s discovery kick-started one of the most heart-wrenching puzzles in the world of horse racing.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • What's next: The vote kick-starts the full design process for the project, which will include community input.
    — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Eleven years after her prison time, Justin Bieber helped kick-start her reinvention.
    — Ana Calderone, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • His film, winner of three Oscars, kick-started a crop of American movies filmed in Rome.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The macrophage eats the virus, creating antigens that kick-start T-cells, which then activate B-cells to help white blood cells attack the cold virus.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 June 2024
  • At a two-day summit to kick-start action to achieve the goals, Guterres pointed to grim findings in a U.N. report in July.
    — Edith M. Lederer, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • However McMillan, who describes the study as the biggest of its kind so far in Britain, hopes the findings will kick-start more research.
    — Helier Cheung, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting a reaction.
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Patterson picked up his fifth foul with just over seven minutes to play, kick-starting the Owls’ comeback.
    — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Hightower praised Carter for bouncing back with a 55-yard kickoff return to kick-start a late Bears touchdown drive.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 26 Nov. 2024
  • That means the central government will have fewer tools available to kick-start the economy.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • This self-watering smart garden is equipped with a water reservoir, LED lamp, and basil starter pods to kick-start your green thumb journey.
    — Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 20 July 2023
  • Tides turned in February 2020, when the agency received the federal government’s permission to use some unspent grant money to kick-start the project.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Forgoing alcohol entirely for a month has become a popular way to kick-start better habits.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025

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