Sentence examples for started spectacularly from inspiring English sources

The field trip had not started spectacularly.

Photograph: Robert F. Bukaty/AP 10.43am GMT Into the semi-finals, which Fanny Smith starts spectacularly.

The Dati fairytale has started to go spectacularly wrong.

It's a sad legacy for a franchise that started so spectacularly well.

He knows the Democratic Party has a messianic urge to finish what it started so spectacularly with the election of Barack Obama — busting up the world's most exclusive white-bread old-boys' club.

Although this year started off spectacularly well, with its fine spring weather benefiting early flyers such as the orange-tip, the continuing drought has threatened the plants hosting the caterpillars of future broods.

As the hours ticked down to Shorten's speech, the government's policy started to quite spectacularly unravel.

Blackburn began their title defence abysmally, losing five of their first eight games, and it was soon clear that United's main title rivals were Kevin Keegan's Newcastle, who started the season spectacularly after the additions of Les Ferdinand and David Ginola, and Evans's assured Liverpool.

Republicans in Congress have started breaking ranks, most spectacularly over foreign (ie, Arab) ownership of American ports; conservative intellectuals have started lobbing hand grenades (the venerable William Buckley recently branded the Iraq war a "failure"); and would-be successors have started measuring the White House curtains.None of which is surprising.

He's also started to dismantle a spectacularly baroque bureaucracy, reducing the number of boards to one management board from 200 or so, reorganizing 70 regional fiefdoms into 20 clusters and appointing a chief executive for each of 15 divisions.

Freeman was in lane six and started well, but not as spectacularly as Jamaican Lorraine Graham and Briton Katharine Merry, who were in the gold and silver positions going into the final 80m.