toehold

Example Sentences

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Interior Department resource assessments show enormous NPR-A potential, and these bids hopefully prove the toehold necessary to keep growing that investment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Ian Murray is Scottish Labour's longest serving MP – indeed for a while he was their only MP, the party's last toehold north of the border.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

To keep progressing, one has to stay ahead of the thousands of others scrambling to get a toehold in the sport.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

But then the car’s transmission went kaput and she had to take out a costly loan to fix it, and keep her toehold in the middle class.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Reavers from the Three Sisters took the casde once, making it their toehold in the north.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin