How to Use gain/gather steam in a Sentence

gain/gather steam

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  • 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
  • The movement behind this effort will only gather steam—especially as global accountability mechanisms become more common.
    Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2020

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