kick-start

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.

Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.

When fathers hold and play with their children, oxytocin and prolactin kick in, priming them for bonding.

But maybe you have to start somewhere else — with Lamont Waltman Marvin, Monty, his father, the Chief, the old man.

The latter trod on the toes of the former, whereupon the former threatened to "kick out of the cabin" the latter.

Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.

The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.

There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.

But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.