Starting
Starting adjective - Appropriate to the beginning or start of an event.
Take up
Take up verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
Both terms in one sentence
- The bus scene in the camp super special of The Baby-sitters' Club has David Michael starting up a rendition of "a million bottles of beer on the wall" to take up the time.
Source: Playground Song -
Take Up My Sword: In Ultimate X, although Jean does not want to do this for Xavier and the X-Men, she is forced to do so, as Quicksilver is starting a new Brotherhood of Mutants.
Source: Comic Book / Ultimate X-Men -
In Return to Ravnica story, the population who are not part of the ten guilds are starting to take up arms against those guilds.
Source: La Résistance
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