Word Finder - began

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To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

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I began playing the piano at the age of five.   Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.

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To be in the first stage of some situation

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The program begins at 9 o'clock on the dot.    I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun.

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To come into existence.

In a voice quaking with fear, she began to sing.

He loved poetry and soon began to write poems of his own.

Cynthia began slicing the potatoes in the pot.

Then everybody began to feel frightened.

The day Jonathan went to camp, she began working on her plan.

Then she began cleaning the family room.

Carmen grabbed a napkin and began wiping the mashed potatoes from her hand.

It began with a glance as we passed each other the first time, a smile the next two or three laps, and then a pretend rest stop.

Of the time when I began to read connected stories I shall speak later.

After a moment of thanks, they all began their meal.

Casually, he began leading the horse along the ravine again.

There sat the thorny Sorcerer in his chair of state, and when the Wizard saw him he began to laugh, uttering comical little chuckles.

In the past, a scientist began with a surmise or hunch and began gathering data to prove or disprove it.

But the rumble of the machinery made me think it was thundering, and I began to cry, because I feared if it rained we should not be able to have our picnic out of doors.

Even this became less and less intelligible until the time when Miss Sullivan began to teach me.

The room began to spin, and she grabbed the edge of the sink.

They began to wonder if there were no people to inhabit this magnificent city of the inner world.

She relaxed and began to enjoy the evening.

Then he began with the first word on the first page and read the first story aloud without making one mistake.

Their issues faded into the background as they began preparing the house for the new babies.

He began making queer signs and passes toward the Wizard; but the little man did not watch him long.

There began the intimate gathering of five distinctly different individuals, and the unique results of our brief weekend cohabitation.

The clock ticked loudly, and Tommy Jones, who was standing up for the fourth time, began to feel very uneasy.

Then with great labor he began to widen the passageway.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

They moved Alex's office upstairs and began work on the nursery.

Snaking her upper torso over the back of the seat, she began to shift her weight toward the back of the car.

A cold feeling began in the pit of her stomach.

After the guests had drunk quite a little of it, they began to talk foolishly and sing loudly; and some of them went to sleep.

The little company began its long journey.

We had scarcely arrived at the Perkins Institution for the Blind when I began to make friends with the little blind children.

The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the murder of the Duc d'Enghien.

Suddenly the threads that moved them began to slacken and become entangled and it grew difficult to move.

The cook began running hither and thither in the passage like a frightened hen, just as Alpatych entered.

Once into the woods, she began to relax.

I began to shake.

The officer began to write, but just as he finished the first word, a bomb came through the roof of the house and struck the floor close by him.

And suddenly his bosom heaved with sobs and he began to cry.

They were sitting beside each other, reading when she began the inquest.

Yet as the world began to open beyond her little circle, she realized that he had been open about his interest all along.

Then, about the middle of the day, it began to grow dark.

His lips quivered and he began to cry.

Jarred from her thoughts, she began filling a tube with blue icing.

She beat him with her fists until finally her vision began to fail.

She began to moan and sunk her nails into my back until we finally flopped back in exhaustion.

She closed the journal and began her preparation.

Pushing the plate aside so the food would cool, he began slicing the rest of the roast.

Whatever the case, Natalie began suckling as soon as the nipple was in her mouth.

Grabbing an armful of the hay they had packed around the supplies in each wagon, she dropped it on the sand and the mules eagerly began devouring it.

How the dream began, she couldn't remember but she was in his arms and he was gazing down at her, his expression as bland as usual.