"That figure started to walk along independent of its parents."

That was why another figure had started a similar slide from a further section of the brink.

He suppressed a smile as a figure started to take shape among the trees.

Light poured through the door; two figures spilled out and started to run.

The figure on the bed started as she stepped close.

A hunched figure had started away in time to avoid the officers.

During the Enlightenment, its figures started thinking with reason and natural science.

Then the figure will start climbing rapidly toward two billion.

The two little figures hesitated, started back, stopped and turned.

One figure may start a movement, then other people will take it up in slightly different ways.