start out

verb

1. to set out on a journey
2. to take the first steps, as in life, one's career, etc

   he started out as a salesman

3. to take the first actions in an activity in a particular way or specified aim

   they started out wanting a house, but eventually bought a flat

Idioms and Phrases

Set out on a trip, as in The climbers started out from base camp shortly after mid-night . [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

For Louis, that starts out as being the offer of immortality, and then a daughter.

From Salon

At the 10th annual camp this past July, Arteaga completed her first year as a volunteer band coach with the Bidi Bidis, the same group she started out with seven years ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Mandvi and Wilson are the same age, 58, and shared the same agent in the mid-’90s when they were starting out, but they had never worked together.

From Los Angeles Times

What advice would you give a band starting out?

From Los Angeles Times

He started it started out simply, with 36 of the 330 men listed on the town's war memorial buried in Llandudno and a similar number are buried elsewhere in the UK.

From BBC

Related Words

• abandon
• blast off
• disappear
• escape
• evacuate
• exit
• go
• pull out
• quit
• remove
• retire
• vacate
• withdraw