Word Finder - begun

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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.

We'd all begun to doubt him.

We have begun to take long walks every morning, immediately after breakfast.

You say I have begun this war!

The sand in the hourglass had begun to fall faster the past two days.

This same summer the pond has begun to fall again.

The fireworks had begun.

The plan he'd begun to form was finally taking shape.

Had it actually been six months ago that things had begun changing so dramatically?

Now that his diet had begun, wouldn't you know, Paul Dawkins had sprung for a case.

She rubbed it as she.d begun to do whenever she was upset.

Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing.

They had hardly begun to play before the doctor's disheveled head suddenly appeared from behind Mary Hendrikhovna.

Dawn had not yet begun to spread, but it would not be long.

You summoning me shows you've begun to accept your place, love.

At the first sign of real trouble, those who weren't had begun to show their true allegiances.

One minute he'd be drinking in the beauty of the countryside and the next feeling a wave of anxiety, realizing what had begun as a mild suspicion was close to culminating in a face-to-face confrontation with Jeffrey Byrne.

Sand had already begun to trickle into the bottom.

Dean had hardly begun clearing the walk of the deep snow before Jake Weller drove up.

He'd begun to like Elise even more since spending time with her.

These last days I've begun to understand this and come to the dreaded decision of what is to become of me.

In the middle of a sober conversation begun by Ilagin about the year's harvest, Nicholas pointed to the red-spotted bitch.

All that has happened, and now all is changed, she thought as she sat with the letter she had begun before her.

She has begun seeing someone; a young man who does grounds keeping work at the Country Club and is a half dozen years her junior.

The nearest that I came to actual possession was when I bought the Hollowell place, and had begun to sort my seeds, and collected materials with which to make a wheelbarrow to carry it on or off with; but before the owner gave me a deed of it, his wife--every man has such a wife--changed her mind and wished to keep it, and he offered me ten dollars to release him.

The case hasn't even begun!

A pulse of warmth dispelled the tunnel vision that had begun to form.

Cynthia took up a pencil and paper again and began listing the different letters but almost as soon as they'd begun, they were interrupted by a soft knock on the door.

The desire to kiss her gripped him, but he had already begun to fall apart, so instead pulled her in close.

The breach between the queen's party and Albany's had widened, and the queen's advisers had begun an intrigue with England, to the end that the royal widow and her young son should be removed to Henry's court.

Her face had already begun softening, and the warm sienna reclaimed her eyes.

Everything looked quiet, until she checked her micro again and saw that the decryption program had begun popping up the messages that had been repressed in the comms system.

The dream seemed so short, but the sky had begun to lighten on the horizon.  The dream faded as he sat up.  Toby stood nearby, his young face solemn.

Last night had brought him no closer to figuring out why she was pushing him away, though he'd begun to realize his body's response to her was endangering his own resolve not to be involved with anyone else ever again.

She looked towards their destination then back at the pillar of magic, which had grown thicker and had begun eating away at the earth around it.

An investigation was begun in March 1559, and as the result of a conviction for heresy the exhumed body of Jorisz was burned, together with his portrait, on the 13th of May 1559.

When war was actually begun, Hastings officially recorded his previous resolution to have resigned, in order to repudiate responsibility for measures which he had always opposed.

At the same time a settlement of the land revenue on leases for five years was begun, and the police and military systems of the country were placed upon a new footing.

In 1815 he was commissioned by government to complete the translation of Strabo which had been begun by Laporte-Dutheil, and in March 1816 he was one of those who were admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions by royal ordinance, having previously contributed a Memoire, " On the Metrical System of the Egyptians," which had been crowned.

After the advance has begun in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements.

She had done nothing but cry, complain and faint since this ordeal had begun.

There followed the familiar tossing and turning, telling me the dreams had begun.

Jonny had begun disappearing in the evenings with most of the vamps, and she knew he was out hunting humans.

He'd begun to think their recruitment standards were slipping until Jake mentioned the operation.

She looked up at the glowing clouds, from which snow had begun to fall again.

Unlike the cheerful white walls of the house, the tall wall was the unwelcome shade of dark grey that she'd begun to despise after days in the spaceships surrounded by it.

Cynthia laughed, the first sign of life since the ordeal had begun.

He'd begun to remember his life as the White God, memories that had been trapped in darkness for so long.

The rain stopped as quickly as it had begun, and the room became so quiet that it hurt her ears.

In this third part Aquinas discusses the person, office and work of Christ, and had begun to discuss the sacraments, when death put an end to his labours.

After 445 Athens was hardly in a position to summon such a congress, and would not have sent to envoys out of 20 to northern and central Greece, where she had just lost all her influence; nor is it likely that the building of the Parthenon (begun not later than 447) was entered on before the congress.