How to Use start-up in a Sentence

start-up

noun
  • The first is the Build grant for early-stage start-ups.
    — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2025
  • What are some of the early tasks of this ‘start-up’ phase?
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
  • As with any start-up, there’s no track record to refer to.
    — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The fast pace and hunger of a start-up setting isn’t lost on Okmanas.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Woosnam had spent four years at Villa but left in ’66 as part of the Chiefs’ start-up project.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Two in five, or 41%, struggled to access start-up funds to get their business off the ground.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Google’s control of the ads has turned the former garage start-up in to colossal worth close to $2 trillion.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • By his own admission, his first start-up, Loopt, was a bust.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The default start-up mode is GT, which makes 80 percent of the power and torque available.
    — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The firm won a best new start-up award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Of course, this is no ordinary sedan, and no start-up restoration house.
    — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
  • The cost of doing a start-up business is more than ever before.
    — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Australia is home to many cool things, among which is a bright new start-up called On Powersports.
    — New Atlas, 30 Apr. 2025
  • In both the full video and the clip on Facebook, Thompson mentions grants for a clean energy start-up.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Armstrong started her blog in 2001 while working at a tech start-up.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 10 May 2023
  • But in the same meeting, Shedd also described TTS as a failing start-up.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
  • In the aftermath, start-ups tried restricting sales of their stock.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • Samii had just spent the night playing poker with tech friends from a start-up company.
    — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Many start-up distillers, eager to get a product on the shelf to sell while whiskeys age, aim to make a near-tasteless vodka.
    — Ryan J. Rusak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Michael then went on to work at aerospace start-ups, including SpaceX, in and around the Los Angeles area.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • And dozens of start-ups pitched AI assistants, avatars, coaches, and tutors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Jo, a trans man, is one of the leading figures in the New York start-up arena, a great speaker, mentor, activist.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Cocoon, Sealy’s answer to the many mattress start-ups that have popped up in the past few years, is a worthy competitor.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Amazon is a far cry from the book e-tailer start-up founded in Bezos’s Seattle-area garage in 1994.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Picking the right one depends on the nature of your business (among other things), since what works for a tech start-up might not fly for a food truck.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Fubo launched in 2015 as a start-up focused on streaming sports programming.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These are the models of well-being promoted by Fella Health, a start-up that prescribes buzzy weight-loss drugs to men.
    — Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • A number of start-ups, including Ezra and Neko Health, also offer full-body scans.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The ones most frequently name-checked on TikTok—or in group chats or over brunch tables—are produced by a growing list of start-up wellness brands with bright packaging and cutesy euphemisms.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 14 May 2025
  • Not content to battle it out in the boardroom, crypto bros, tech executives and start-up founders have embraced an old-fashioned version of masculinity.
    — Ben Hubbard Saumya Khandelwal Matthew Defeo W.j. Hennigan, New York Times, 15 May 2025

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