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How to use false start in a sentence

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Thorpe has been robbed of a chance to defend his 400m freestyle title in Athens after being disqualified for a false start.
The justice system grinds slowly and gets off to many a false start, but it ends up triumphant.
Under pressure from animal rights activists seeking to disrupt the race he raised the tape, but a technical failure led to a clear false start.
A fiasco involving the starting tape led to a false start being called but most of the field were oblivious and carried on.
After a false start, a carafe or two of water and a little recuperative snooze, Eva and I finally spoke the international language of love.
Friday was a bit of a false start as the contractions, if that is indeed what they were died away on Saturday.
If any of these five conditions is missing, confusion, anxiety, slow progress, frustration or a false start will result.
Any addition false start will subject the violators to a penalty of 20 seconds.
Note: The right of protest and appeal shall apply whether or not a false start control apparatus is used.
It really does look as if the false start of the early 1990s can be put behind us.
After a false start attempting to farm cotton, he got into the diamond business – and made heaps of money.
A false start would not be in the interests of the existing Members or the new ones.
Mavis and Stella aren't happy about my false start of five minutes ago, and the tabbies are sitting side by side, noses in the air, on the middle of the kitchen counter.
False Starts: In Long Track Speed Skating only one false start is allowed per pair.
I'm trying to focus and not to false start, fall at the line or basically walk instead of run out of the blocks as I sometimes do because any of these things could happen.
With every false start on the long road to peace, economists have been besieged with calls asking whether the latest political move will prove the tonic the economy needs.
After the umpteenth false start and the gazillionth freaky camera angle, it becomes apparent there's time to nap between things that happen that mean something.
Thick electric guitar cuts in on the refrain, a false start that teases at a closing firestorm, but shuts down instead, bowing to the pastoral glow of the verses.
After a false start in his master's style he began a series of large pictures with themes drawn from French history painted in an eclectic manner.
Below this limit any movement of reaction is considered to be premature and places the runner in a false start situation.
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In the meantime, here is another false start, and more waste of good writing-paper.
She made a false start with the Wilcoxes, and she'll be as willing as we are to have nothing more to do with them.
Notably, why was the race declared a false start in the first place and why did it take so long to call a halt?
Bolt was disqualified from the 100 final for a false start at the 2011 world championships in Daegu, South Korea.
The whole complexion of the race changed when Garonne's pacemaker, the first-time-blinkered Legitime Defense, bolted following a false start and had to be withdrawn.
I thought it was a false start and that's why I stopped running.
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