Sentence examples for anything to begin with from inspiring English sources

There is not much here anymore, if there was ever much of anything to begin with.

And, like so many of her common touches, it makes people love her even more, because they know that she wasn't given anything to begin with.

My chest was barely anything to begin with, so why go through such pain and recovery time for something that wouldn't be noticed?

The protagonist of Javier Cercas's 2001 novel, "Soldiers of Salamis," self-deprecatingly claims he can't give up writing because his writing never amounted to anything to begin with.

"At the convention, he did a better job of concealing anything that was negative, if he had anything to begin with," said Wilma Akins, 69, a retired office manager in Statesboro, Ga.

I had a professor in college who said that the best writers keep craft in one pocket and self-awareness in the other, and while many white authors have a pocket full of the first, that second pocket either has a hole at the bottom or never contained anything to begin with.

"Our success as a band is far beyond anything I expected to begin with," laughs Meloy.

But Gruber has already disavowed what he said, acknowledging that it was mistaken, and many people who were involved in the actual writing of the law — Gruber wasn't — deny there was anything to it to begin with.

If there was anything substantial there to begin with, the word switch shouldn't make any difference.

Though it's now emerged from the woods with new management and a new structure it was dichotomized into U.K./Ireland and mainland Europe branches some analysts reckon there was never anything drastically wrong to begin with.

We create the form of value -and the potential benefit to others of knowing how we live our lives- by doing something, anything, really, online to begin with.