Sentence examples for one false start from inspiring English sources

I had been trying to write the story of my parents for years, making character notes, outlining plots, embarking on one false start after another.

His disqualification in Daegu in 2011, after one false start in the 100m final, frames his saddest moment on the track.

Congress -- suggested allowing one false start before disqualifying someone who then jumps the gun.

With the one false start rule I ain't taking any chances you know.

After one false start, cautious optimism best be the watchword in anticipating Tiger Woods making his comeback to competitive golf.

Had a proposed rule disqualifying a sprinter after only one false start been in effect, it would have wiped out the first three finishers.

Surely the one false-start rule seems crazy to Bolt?

Malcolm's latest book, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, affords the reader a not dissimilar experience.

"Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by Janet Malcolm, out May 7th.

Also seeing publication was a notable collection of shorter pieces, Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm, which included both profiles and the author's reflections on the difficulties of writing them.

She is also a master of the profile, and her alluring, pointed, singularly perceptive tellings of the lives of Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Anton Chekhov, and Ted Hughes, to name a few, have now been gathered together in "Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers".