The phrase "started to rush" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase in a sentence to indicate the beginning of a process. For example, "The crowd started to rush towards the doors as the concert was about to start."
But the Comets got its lead to 12 when the Liberty started to rush its shots.
He said he concentrated on the Rays' base runners, intent on not letting them steal, but he instead started to rush and was unable to regain his rhythm.
"The water suddenly started to rush out for about five minutes, dropping by about 1.25 metres, then after a couple of minutes returned with some force," reported the harbourmaster.
Before Compton's winning hit had reached the boundary yesterday the crowd had started to rush, with a cheer in their throats, across the turf, and the staider spectators, no longer wearing the calm look of a Wisden statistician, were uninhibitedly waving their match cards and adding mighty volume to the vocal celebration.
The chief reason: a once hot hand, or hot specialty, has gone stone cold, and investors have started to rush out.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Buster Posey caught the final strike, started to rush the mound, then stopped and turned toward the dugout.
Due to the sheer weight of material, Stories of Me starts to rush toward the end.
If a doctor starts to rush out of the room, stop him or her by saying, "Doctor, I still have some questions".
Five minutes after this fourth landing, a VNAF observer pilot in an L-19 spotted a mob of about a hundred Vietcong starting to rush across the open fields of reeds, flooded at this midpoint in the monsoon season.
Stampedes often occur if people start to rush towards a common target.
I start to rush them at this point.
