Commenced

Direct flights between New York and Tokyo commenced recently.

Tom's trial commenced three days later.

Hostilities commenced.

Mevrouw commenced playing softly upon the piano.

"Perhaps you cannot yourself recall how your reverie commenced?" "No, I cannot." "Then I will tell you."

Their swords crossed, and the combat commenced.

Lucy commenced some apology for their long delay, but, conscience-struck, became confused as she proceeded; and when Ravenswood, coming to her assistance, endeavoured to render the explanation complete and satisfactory, he only involved himself in the same disorder, like one who, endeavouring to extricate his companion from a slough, entangles himself in the same tenacious swamp.

Rosenberg’s student debt commenced in 1993, when he enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, according to court documents.

The manufacture of these muslins and of cotton quiltings was commenced in Bolton, Lancashire, by Joseph Shaw, when Crompton was about ten years of age; and from that time up to the present, no town in the world enjoys the same reputation for this class of goods as does Bolton.