kick-start

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Examples

• And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

• Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

• Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.

• When fathers hold and play with their children, oxytocin and prolactin kick in, priming them for bonding.

• But maybe you have to start somewhere else — with Lamont Waltman Marvin, Monty, his father, the Chief, the old man.

• The latter trod on the toes of the former, whereupon the former threatened to "kick out of the cabin" the latter.

• Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.

• The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.

• There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.

• But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.