Below you will find example sentences with "started playing". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Started Playing in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: started
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "started playing" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and i started playing with them, as he started playing the piano, years, together and music stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with started dating, started getting, started throwing and started getting, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with started playing
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
As soon as they started playing, my heart leapt. (9 words)
But as soon as he started playing the piano, everything started to flow. (13 words)
After getting it together, I grabbed a pair of headphones and started playing. (13 words)
As I got older and started playing at higher levels, everybody I knew was a Leafs fan, so I eventually gave in. I think, after Saturday night, even my dad might have to convert—the Leafs got my parents tickets at the last minute, which was classy of them. (49 words)
I started music at the age of 10, I started by playing the drums and years later I started playing the piano and base-guitar but I started music professionally at 23. I studied statistics at the University of Abuja. (40 words)
Moore recalled, "All of a sudden, Elvis just started singing this song, jumping around and acting the fool, and then Bill picked up his bass, and he started acting the fool, too, and I started playing with them. (38 words)
Bonus: Would there be any extra satisfaction in the Jets beating the Eagles for the first time ever since they started playing in 1973? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
I started music at the age of 10, I started by playing the drums and years later I started playing the piano and base-guitar but I started music professionally at 23. I studied statistics at the University of Abuja.
He started skating at 2 years old and started playing organized hockey at 5. He began playing so long ago he doesn’t remember the exact reason he was drawn to the sport.
Moore recalled, "All of a sudden, Elvis just started singing this song, jumping around and acting the fool, and then Bill picked up his bass, and he started acting the fool, too, and I started playing with them.
JS: I started playing when I was five years old, but probably more seriously when I was like 13. Definitely the team aspect made me want to continue playing in college.
I started playing the clarinet in the fourth grade and continued until my senior year in college, so I have years worth of wonderful memories playing music in small, medium, and large groups.
He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to playing the organ at his father's church four years later.
As the season progressed and as the roles got filled and as they started playing together the expectations started to grow and I think they realized we could actually do this,” said Fremont coach Lisa Dalebout.
But as soon as he started playing the piano, everything started to flow.
I started playing for him when I was 15, and he started mentoring me.
Gilmore was always talented, but really didn’t play to his potential in Buffalo and started that way in NE too, but quickly started playing better.
The two of you started — got to know each other; you started playing music together when you were still in high school.
While Progress moved out of the small garage in Islington, England, where it started, and started playing larger venues, such as Alexandra Palace and its current mainstay, Camden’s Electric Ballroom, Smallman stayed as host over the years.
They started playing together as a duo, started the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955 and made their first record together in 1957.
According to CEO Mariina Hallikainen, the game has over 26 million players, with over 5 million having started playing it within the last year.
After getting it together, I grabbed a pair of headphones and started playing.
And when the band started playing and he came jumping out, I swear I could feel the floor shaking – the entire stadium was electric.
As I got older and started playing at higher levels, everybody I knew was a Leafs fan, so I eventually gave in. I think, after Saturday night, even my dad might have to convert—the Leafs got my parents tickets at the last minute, which was classy of them.
As soon as they started playing, my heart leapt.
Blake’s admiration for the Winnipeg Jets began when he started playing hockey at the age of five and learned someone on the team had his exact name.
Bonus: Would there be any extra satisfaction in the Jets beating the Eagles for the first time ever since they started playing in 1973?