Begin

//bɪˈɡɪn//

"Begin" in a Sentence (24 examples)

Class doesn't begin until eight-thirty.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

You may as well begin at once.

When did you begin studying English?

Once you begin, you must continue.

When did you begin learning German?

As long as you are here, we might as well begin.

From the look of the sky, it may begin to snow tonight.

The weather will soon begin to calm down.

You must begin with books like these that are easily understood.

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I began playing the piano at the age of five.

Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.

The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.

I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun.

The Apoſtle begins our Knowledge in the Creatures, which lead us to the Knowledge of God, if we will make uſe of our Reaſon: [...]

Ye Nymphs of Solyma! begin the ſong: / To heav'nly themes ſublimer ſtrains belong.

Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery, he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair.

Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.

State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

Vast chain of being! which from God began.

In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin

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