Sentence examples for a few started from inspiring English sources

She also piped up when a few started slamming the ball through the hoop.

A few started throwing stones at its windows, while others pulled petrol bombs out of sisal sacks.

A few started playing a Sri Lankan card game called Monkeys and Donkeys, but before they could finish even a few hands, four trucks pulled up outside and disgorged more than 100 men.

A few started going out of their way daily to duck into subway stations where they learned the cards gathered in stacks (for example, the 86th and Lexington stop, where tidy people place their used cards in a tiny cubbyhole where a brick happens to be missing right by the turnstile).

By John McCarten The New Yorker, September 7 , 1957P. 27 Our Third Avenue correspondent reports that at Costello's the other evening, an owlish, angular fellow in tortoise-shell glasses and a seersucker suit, who had had a few, started discussing the Picasso exhibition that has been at the Museum of Modern Art.

"But, after a decent first half, maybe a few started to believe that we were better than we are, and we paid for it.

Here are a few starting points.

Forgive me if I offer a few starting points.

In lieu of answers, here are a few starting points.

So grids cannot contain just a few starting clues.

"It gave us a few starting points, revolving around emptiness and dread.