How to Use start-up in a Sentence

start-up

noun

• That start-up approach, move fast and break stuff, had worked.
  — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• Rippling would call this the compound start-up.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Stacey’s worked at a lot of start-ups, but the latest is most promising.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
• At the time, Harris was working at a start-up.
  — Korin Miller, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
• Being a part of a start-up [Commence] is no joke.
  — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
• Jane Lauder is betting big on pet start-ups.
  — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2025
• One Chinese start-up is hoping to change that.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2026
• And yet today, too many UK start-ups hit a wall at scale.
  — London Business School, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Most of us will never have the chance to invest in private start-ups.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 July 2026
• The fast pace and hunger of a start-up setting isn’t lost on Okmanas.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 Nov. 2024
• Of course, this is no ordinary sedan, and no start-up restoration house.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
• The cost of doing a start-up business is more than ever before.
  — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
• Samii had just spent the night playing poker with tech friends from a start-up company.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
• But this is still a start-up team in a start-up competition backed by immense wealth.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 19 June 2025
• Green steel start-up Stegra is one such company.
  — Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
• In the aftermath, start-ups tried restricting sales of their stock.
  — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• Southeast Asia’s start-up scene is just getting started.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
• As a start-up high school, it is unaccredited.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
• The fund takes minority stakes in promising start-ups.
  — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Nov. 2025
• At a time when many start-ups seem to go from zero to 10X overnight, that pace can feel glacial.
  — Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Genoa has no flashy tech start-up scene or digital nomads on every corner.
  — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Two in five, or 41%, struggled to access start-up funds to get their business off the ground.
  — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• Time management has been a huge part of building this start-up alongside my schoolwork.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 25 May 2023
• And there has been a pullback of biotech start-ups that have been looking to develop new vaccines.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2025
• Hence the need for start-ups to scale quickly – and for financial firepower.
  — David Prosser, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• The softened start-up keeps the opening from becoming a trigger.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Google’s control of the ads has turned the former garage start-up in to colossal worth close to $2 trillion.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
• Lumenisity will produce the fibers, a start-up spun out of Southampton.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
• Armstrong started her blog in 2001 while working at a tech start-up.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 10 May 2023
• These elements were meant to match the furious energy of a tech start-up.
  — Barry Levitt, Time, 19 Sep. 2025