start out

British  

verb

1. to set out on a journey

2. to take the first steps, as in life, one's career, etc

   he started out as a salesman

3. to take the first actions in an activity in a particular way or specified aim

   they started out wanting a house, but eventually bought a flat

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start out Idioms  

1. Set out on a trip, as in The climbers started out from base camp shortly after mid-night. [Early 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Consider where every winning quarterback this weekend started out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in the TV drama Skins, but the new-found fame brought out a previously buried trauma.

From BBC

Venditti started out making documentary films and scouting for fashion models in such places as Appalachia.

From The Wall Street Journal

He started out as an apprentice in 1987 and has spent a little over 30 years of his career in total at the Dumfries and Galloway plant.

From BBC

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent started out a defender of the Fed and a critic of tariffs, and is now a defender of tariffs and critic of the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• abandon
• blast off
• disappear
• escape
• evacuate
• exit
• go
• pull out
• quit
• remove
• retire
• vacate
• withdraw