How to Use ahold in a Sentence

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• If any of your readers have a good idea get ahold of me.
  — Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2017
• Sometimes, the bed or mat would go to the first child who got ahold of it when another got up to go to the bathroom.
  — oregonlive.com, 29 June 2019
• For others, even getting ahold of the essentials is out of reach.
  — Randi Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2019
• After striking out on a 98-mph fastball up in the zone in the fourth, Stanton got ahold of a 96-mph fastball well above the zone in the sixth.
  — Tim Healey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• The media got ahold of the story, and theories weren’t far behind.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2019
• Before the man could get away, the owner of the gun got ahold of his weapon again and fired at him, hitting him once in the leg, according to the release.
  — Margaret Kadifa, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• Hobbs explained in a comment earlier that same day that her toddler got ahold of the cup and brought it into the kitchen.
  — Jamie Ballard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2017
• Phillies third baseman Maikel Franco hit a grand slam in the third inning, getting ahold of a 2-2 fastball over the heart of the plate and sending it over the wall in left.
  — Tim Healey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Just wait until celeb-insult Twitter gets ahold of these.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 2 Oct. 2017
• After a week of phone tag, the Redskins scout finally got ahold of Towns, asking him to come up to D.C. for a workout.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The fight Rodecap grabbed for King's arm as Dorris tried to get ahold of him, both troopers remembered.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 17 July 2019
• Uber’s president of business in Asia got ahold of the medical records of a woman who was raped in an Uber car; he was fired in June.
  — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 2 Aug. 2017
• Anyone who gets ahold of your proprietary microbe could sequence its genome and copy it.
  — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2015
• While the audience reacted to the speech with a blend of laughter, shock and discomfort, the real fallout of the speech came when the internet got ahold of it.
  — Piper McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• That’s led to some speculation that Dorsey was somehow still signed into Cloudhopper for all these years, and the hackers got ahold of that account.
  — Wired, 30 Aug. 2019
• The hue may be right, but the undertone is wrong, the texture or finish might also need work, and since many brands still refuse to stock their full array of shades, even getting ahold of the right options would take time.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2019
• Manney said Hamilton got ahold of his baton and was attacking him when Manney fired fatal shots.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2017
• Just wait until the sardonic Jessica Jones gets ahold of Danny.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 May 2017
• The Belgian broadcaster got ahold of the recordings after Dutch audio data was leaked by a Google employee.
  — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 12 July 2019
• But once a circus recruiter got ahold of him following a gymnastics meet, events were set in motion that wound up catapulting Braun, a.k.a.
  — Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• Testing all the things Instead of getting ahold of someone else’s EM drive, or Mach-effect device, the researchers created their own, along with the driving electronics.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
• Instead of getting ahold of someone else’s EM drive, or Mach-effect device, the researchers created their own, along with the driving electronics.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
• For starters, Haley Joy, Hoda's baby girl, got ahold of a flag and looked adorable as ever proudly waving it at her fellow partygoers.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 5 July 2018
• After getting ahold of the rapist's hard drive, Stacy found a photo of Marie and immediately contacted Lynnwood police.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2019
• Dollars remain the go-to currency for many Venezuelans seeking to get rid of bolivars, but getting ahold of them can be difficult and generally requires a black market broker.
  — Christine Armario and Fabiola Sanchez, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2017
• With its Trinitron televisions and Walkman portable tape players, Sony grabbed ahold of global consumers during Japan’s dizzying economic rise decades ago.
  — Jonathan Soble, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• In addition, Godfrey was concerned that private stores would increase alcohol advertising, be open longer hours and increase risk of underage people getting ahold of alcohol.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 28 June 2017
• After getting ahold of the genetic blueprints for molecular weapons, relatively harmless bacteria transformed into one that can cause anthrax—in places and animals where the original anthrax bacteria doesn’t.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024