How to Use get-go in a Sentence

get-go

noun
  • So from the get-go, those things happen.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2026
  • The whole thing was a setup from the get-go.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
  • But don't, in your headline, slam me at the get-go.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025
  • From the get-go, there was lots of confusion, right?
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 3 June 2026
  • From the get-go, the 24-year-old was throwing fire.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Meeting her was one of those things that just fell into place, from the get-go.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Her ability to get to the basket has stood out from the get-go.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • But the enterprise struggled almost from the get-go.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • The dividends were obvious from the get-go this season and bore fruit as time wore on.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Just the choice of the gene, CCR5, was a mistake from the get-go.
    — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 24 June 2026
  • Holland was respected from almost the get-go.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The rotation has been marvelous from the get-go despite its ailments.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 15 May 2026
  • Users do not necessarily comply at the get-go.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • There was just a severe lack of originality that doomed Zero from the get-go.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Speaking of which, another major point of concern is that the use of a maternal archetype is wrong at the get-go.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • One argument is that this is a preposterous proposition at the get-go.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Orwell’s original characters understood from the get-go where many of them end up.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • From the get-go, there was much resistance within Penney’s to his strategy.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 26 June 2026
  • As a Plano native who has been able to stay home while chasing his kicking dream, staying with the Cowboys was the goal from the get-go.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Advertisement From the get-go, Schumer knew the Democrats needed Maine.
    — Julia Terruso, Time, 8 June 2026
  • This is despite the reality that the assertion was only an unsupported guess at the get-go.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Canadiens fans in attendance on Friday were quick to shower the 25-year-old player with love from the get-go.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Christina Haack's divorce from her husband of two years, Josh Hall, was acrimonious from the get-go.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • If a planned university is only useful to Chula Vista, then the vision, the plan, is myopic from the get-go.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • Erica has been a steadfast supporter of her big brother from the get-go, and frequently goes to bat for the Knicks on social media.
    — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • That may open space for Luiz Henrique, a player of a similar profile but one who has been a member of Ancelotti’s squad since the get-go.
    — Luke Bosher, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Wallstedt was sharp from the get-go Saturday, including buoying the Wild in killing the two first-period Avalanche power plays.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • At La Grand’Vigne, chef Nicolas Masse’s reverence for nature and terroir is evident from the get-go.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
  • His moves may sometimes seem counterintuitive—but then, that’s how a television show, risky from the get-go, survives for 50 years and counting, through unwatchable seasons and great ones.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The future suggests that the AI will be improved such that the code is perfect at the get-go, or the AI is proficient at squaring away the code that has been generated.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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