began

[began]

To begin is to start. When it begins to snow, every flake looks pretty, drifting gently down from the dark sky.

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Usage Examples

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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Other Usage Examples

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

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