What is "got started"

Usage examples of "got started".

Living things (with trivial exceptions) synthesize only the left-handed form of amino acids, but how life got started at all on a planet where natural processes formed both types equally is another question.

His messenger would be back from Georgetown soon, and it was time he got started on a second report.

But even though they weren't quite as fast, once they got started, hand to hand combat with a Jao was like trying to fight a gorilla.

As a rule Harry didn't talk much, but there were times when once he got started he tended to go on at some length.

The infuriated crowd, through some chance, got started against one man, either for words he uttered, or perhaps without any cause at all, and were proceeding to hang him at once to a neighboring lamp-post, when he was rescued by a few heroic policemen, who placed him in their midst and fought their way slowly and amid great peril toward the station-house.

Probably we, and all the other living things on Earth got started that way, millions of years ago.

Myra broke in, knowing that once her sister got started, she could go on about a house for ten or twenty minutes.

And now, I think it's time I went and got started on that settling in.

I don't know how it got started but I've no idea where the Cloth is.