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Words nearby get a head start

get after, get a grip on, get a hand, get a handle on, get ahead, get a head start, get a kick out of, get a life, get a line on, get a load of, get along

How to use get a head start in a sentence

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
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The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.
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Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
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She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley