toehold

Example Sentences

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The hurdles are even higher for lower-income families trying to get a toehold in the housing market.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

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

"I need Balon Swann and the Hound to lead sorties, to make certain Stannis gets no toehold on our side of the Blackwater."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin