| A false start shall be indicated by a double pistol shot, a double-whistle or a double bell-chime. |
| 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. |
| After a false start attempting to farm cotton, he got into the diamond business – and made heaps of money. |
| 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. |
| The justice system grinds slowly and gets off to many a false start, but it ends up triumphant. |
