How to Use onset in a Sentence

onset

noun

• Trump’s election in 2016 marked the onset of the third stage.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 16 Mar. 2024
• The Last of Us star was unfazed at the onset of the wing challenge with host Sean Evans, cleaning the meat off the bone.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• One key difference between a cold and the flu is that the flu has a rapid onset.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
• The north wind reached 23 mph at least once, discouraging dreams of the onset of spring.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• The 30-year-old located his pitches and filled up the strike zone from the onset of his outing.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
• Those who die of the virus usually do so within two weeks of onset, according to the WHO.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
• After the onset of Covid, the network started screening for Covid, too.
  — Colin Puzo Smith, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
• Production was shut down, however, at the onset of the WGA strike.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• By all accounts, the coming year looks like more of the same albeit a bit more uneventful at the onset – which is good news.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The onset of the virus triggered more remote work, a trend that caused demand to boom for tech devices and tech services.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• This could have been avoided if the Fed had succeeded in doing its job as lender of last resort to SVB at the onset of the run.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Nalysnyk recalled her words to him at the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine early last year.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Now, a pair of studies suggests the birds rely on the onset of dusk and the suggestion of fair skies ahead as signs for taking flight.
  — Erin Blakemore, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
• At stroke onset, a clot or ruptured blood vessel interrupts blood flow to the brain.
  — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
• Huntsman New York is at about four to five months from onset to completion right now.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• The climb of Kohl’s Plenty of ink has been spilled about the death of the department store, mainly thanks to the onset of fast fashion and online shopping.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
• This can happen as soon as 48 to 72 hours after onset of symptoms.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• The deal was cemented in May before the onset of the writers’ strike, per the Hollywood Reporter.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• The typical age of onset for menopause is a broad range — typically from 45 to 55.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
• In 2020, larger problems presented themselves to Reich, along with the rest of the world, with the onset of the pandemic.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• One Love drew an ethnically diverse crowd from the onset, but the makeup also changed as the days went on.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• All those rooms were a big liability at the onset of the pandemic in 2020.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• Europe came out of dark ages with onset of Renaissance.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• The couple tied the knot after beginning their fairytale romance at the onset of the pandemic in 2020.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
• What Aicher and her colleagues were seeing was a sudden onset of fever and a wide range of severity.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Signs of a Heart Attack Heart attack symptoms can vary, and the onset can be gradual or sudden.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 26 July 2023
• But since the onset of Covid, there have been no substantive changes made to the program to offset the new development challenges.
  — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• At the onset of the extinction event, plankton species began to disappear.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• Interest rates for car loans have soared to levels last seen at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, Edmunds found.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, would also restart payments on student loans, which have been on pause since the onset of the pandemic.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024