How to Use gain/gather steam in a Sentence

gain/gather steam

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  • But Santos has so far failed to gain steam in the race.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
  • That effort could gain steam should Johnson bring up a vote on funding for Ukraine.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • But in spring 2022, the momentum to get the wrestling team back started to gain steam with a chain of emails from incoming freshmen.
    — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • So in relation to Solo, when did Willow start to gain steam?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Net apartment leasing in North Texas topped 4,000 units and has continued to gain steam.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
  • Fights over library books erupted in late 2021 and continue to gain steam.
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The project seemed to gain steam once the city and Mr. Buckley’s company finalized an agreement in April 2023.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The crowd began to gather steam as the day unfolded, with a notable gathering in the grandstands at the South’s 18th hole.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • There also is the potential for a new variant to gain steam and cause infections, and the flu remains a big concern.
    — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 9 Sep. 2022
  • If Republicans impeach Biden and the polls don’t move at all, that’s a very bad sign for a reelection effort that has yet to gain steam.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
  • He was disappointed that the movement did not gain steam when George W. Bush was reelected.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021
  • As Yeezy continued to gain steam, its success caught the attention of West's then-wife Kim Kardashian.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • What kind of reckoning is possible in the tech industry if these kinds of shifts in thinking continue to gain steam?
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 Dec. 2022
  • As the push for reparations continues to gain steam, the locomotive is headed to Atlanta.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 June 2023
  • Follett, whose ideas were beginning to gain steam, called for re-personalization—to bring the right kind of struggle into each encounter.
    — Matthew Barzun, Time, 15 June 2021
  • Many fans speculated that Ms. Spears wasn’t in control of her social-media accounts, and the #FreeBritney movement continued to gain steam.
    — Alex Janin, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But soon, as your disruptive product, process, or business model begins to gain steam with customers, your competitors will start to get worried.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2022
  • As home electrification continues to gain steam, solar (and storage) installs will continue to go through the roof.
    — Chris Hopper, Fortune, 3 July 2023
  • But a core tension is whether these initiatives will gain steam, especially if they are not mandated or tied to federal funding.
    — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The increase in the two-week average of Covid hospitalizations as new omicron subvariants continue to gain steam.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 11 July 2022
  • Stylish and functional backpacks, which continue to gain steam in the fashion world, are also on sale, including this mixed-materials mini option that's roomy enough to hold all of your essentials.
    — Lauren Fischer, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The idea of vaccine verification, particularly in indoor public areas, has begun to gain steam of late as the state battles the latest coronavirus wave.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Though the House bill is currently awaiting a vote in the full chamber as its sponsors haven’t yet secured the support needed for passage, bipartisan support for reining in big tech continues to gather steam on Capitol Hill.
    — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2021
  • China’s economy will likely gather steam as health restrictions lift.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022
  • After starting the team right before the pandemic, Mantegani is seeing his program gain steam with a second consecutive year of normalcy.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Some conservative activists have also floated the idea of increasing the presence of sheriffs wherever ballots are cast, counted and transported, echoing a proposal by Mr. Trump in 2020 that didn’t gain steam.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • Additionally, the report says, the outbreak began to gather steam at the same time as Chinese scientists were beginning to develop a vaccine, according to their experts' analysis of early Chinese vaccine patents.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • As a concept and practice, financial literacy continues to gain steam throughout a cross-section of America looking to educate constituents around their respective sector.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Still, larger efforts to impose new federal-level rules on the rail industry have struggled to gain steam with all Republicans in Congress, who worry about prematurely regulating a private industry.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Yet, just as listings began to gather steam in Europe after months of inactivity, spiking coronavirus infections roiled equity markets, creating a trickier environment to pitch IPOs and for new stocks to start trading.
    — Myriam Balezou, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020

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