How to Use beginning in a Sentence

beginning

noun

• Go back to the beginning of the song.
• We were late, so we missed the beginning of the movie.
• The changes that have been made so far are just the beginning. There are many more changes still to come.
• He came from humble beginnings.
• The goal is to have the beginnings of those two programs in place by Sept. 1.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• And that was the beginning of that, the unpacking of Sam.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 26 June 2023
• Frossard said that plan was a no-go from the beginning.
  — Luke Ranker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2024
• Which didn’t go very well at the beginning of the season.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2024
• That wig, the one Efron wears at the beginning of the film when Kevin is younger, is shorter.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 22 Dec. 2023
• There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• The rest of our date was the beginning of our life together.
  — Rosa Cesaretti, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The beginning of Pride Month on June 1 has only brought that further to the fore.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• There was an attempt at recording with the Hawks at the beginning of the process of the Blonde on Blonde album.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
• The misplay put left-hander Tarik Skubal in a bind from the beginning.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
• Since the beginning of Swift’s career, I’ve been hooked.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 27 June 2023
• Yet what is cringe but the beginning of self-knowledge?
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• From the very beginning, Metroid has been about feeling alone.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• At the beginning of the film, only three are present around the kitchen table: Kevin and his brothers David and Michael.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• One of the most alluring traits of any Ferrari is that since the beginning they’ve been built to go fast.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
• Holi is a celebration of the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• And that was also one of the very apparent challenges of this movie right from the beginning.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• This was the beginning of the season, so the actors hadn’t started working yet.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
• The season start in mid-August and run to the beginning of October.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 1 June 2023
• At the beginning of the year, there were eight anti-DEI laws in effect throughout the country.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2024
• At the beginning of the trial, none of them meditated more than once a week.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 9 Dec. 2023
• The outpouring of help and support at the beginning has dwindled to a trickle.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• But species is just the beginning of decoding the label.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 8 Jan. 2024
• The book’s final running sentence is thought to line up with the opening sentence on the first page, so the club started the book from the beginning.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• Since 2019, Bonds has opened a new box of Wahl clippers for Mahomes at the beginning of each season.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2024
• This has been the case since the beginning—the first employee being himself, of course.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024