start

(verb)

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

All clip examples

• This whole ghastly story began developing two days ago (Night of the Living Dead)
• Since then, reports of some senseless killings began snowballing in a reign of terror (Night of the Living Dead)
• Tell her that the lights of Paris go on tonight for the first time since the war began. (The Last Time I Saw Paris)
• Now as I said, sales began to fall in April. (The Wasp Woman)
• He took 15 dollars. He didn't believe it was all I had, so he began pushing me around... ...and this gentleman ran in and knocked him down. (Scarlet Street)
• It was when the gravediggers started their task that strange things began to take place. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• How you begin to like them, and... (Scarlet Street)
• They began to kill your own people a few at a time. (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
• Well, let's begin the seance now. (The Amazing Mr. X)
• Sometime early this morning, it opened its eyes and began to move its trunk. (Night of the Living Dead)
• When this emergency first began... (Night of the Living Dead)