How to Use foothold in a Sentence

foothold

noun
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  • The army gained a foothold on the island.
  • The company has secured a foothold in the market.
  • That silence allowed the virus to gain a foothold and spread around the world.
    — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The surfer knew that someone new to this cove wouldn’t know the spots to climb, the places where crevices make footholds.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Google and Amazon have both struggled to gain a foothold in it.
    — Katharine Gemmell, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Then place a foothold trap somewhere at the entrance to that opening.
    — Joseph Biebert, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
  • For now, the Denver office will serve as Foley Hoag’s foothold in the West.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Now the video game retailer is trying to gain a foothold.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The records in the case suggest that Israel’s far right is gaining a new foothold in the United States.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Because the attacker just is trying to use that as a foothold to get in and then from there off to the races.
    — Cio, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • And now, the emergence of a local foothold in the growing space industry.
    — Emre Kelly, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The plan is to take its foothold in Norway and expand globally.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In the late 1980s, as a series of drive-by shootings rocked Portland, Schrunk remarked that gangs might not gain a foothold in the city.
    — oregonlive, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The United States established a foothold with a Tokyo silver.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • For all their potential to drive changes in health, wearables have struggled to gain a foothold in medicine.
    — Katie Palmer, STAT, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The longer each contender looms in uncertainty, the looser their foothold becomes in the East’s top tier.
    — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 14 July 2023
  • Arrowhead, however, is the team that just got a foothold.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The merger gives Broadcom a foothold in the cloud computing market.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But for many, smaller living spaces can be a way to at least gain a foothold in the housing market for the time being.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 18 Sep. 2023
  • And Rob [Cavallo] already had a really good foothold on how to record and get rock & roll to sound great.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • These items are expected to gain foothold at Foxtrot stores in the future, Williams noted.
    — Douglas Yu, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, China has long lusted after a firm strategic foothold in the Middle East and Gulf regions.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • For streaming services looking to grab a foothold in what remains the world’s last untapped market, Africa is a long play.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The two schools will give the conference a foothold in Southern California.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In the land of a million tacos, burritos continue to find a foothold in San Antonio.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • That had major implications in the 1990s when the peace process was finally gaining a foothold with the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords.
    — TIME, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Both of the latter findings suggested that the mice have a real foothold in the Andes’ summits, the scientists say.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Mansaray feels like Ottawa County is a warning for the whole country, as far-right politics gains a foothold.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • They were first detected in Australia in 2001 and have steadily increased their foothold.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The Brewers' big weekend gave them a foothold over Cincinnati, a team that had been white hot in between facing the Brewers at the beginning of June and now.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2023

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