How to Use starting point in a Sentence

starting point

noun
  • Select any food or drink, then use that item as your visionary starting point.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
  • Afterwards, participants head up to the course starting point.
    Seward Hospitality, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
  • And this may be a kind of starting point for collecting data on the nuances of customs and business culture in different countries.
    Alexander Konovalov, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Lakers also didn’t have starting point guard D’Angelo Russell, who missed his fourth straight game with a right ankle sprain.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In a way, the Circus Maximus performance is an even better live starting point for the Utopia era than the Pyramids would have been.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The address, which serves as a sort of starting point for budget negotiations between the mayor and city council, typically happens in August.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025

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