How to Use take hold in a Sentence

take hold

idiomatic phrase

• So take hold of it and grab the reins to a new tomorrow.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• The idea took hold, and Spiro entered Harvard Law School in 2005.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Home prices peaked in June 2022, then dipped through the rest of the year as the housing recession took hold.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
• The first few months of 2022 has seen many different hair trends take hold.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• My plan was to keep taking them to restaurants, keep up the discipline, and wait for the habits to take hold.
  — Megan Angelo, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
• This resurgence is a great standout as the maxi took hold of the spotlight this summer.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
• When a new queen began her reign, a new dialect appeared to take hold.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• The Gulf Stream shuttles the plants around the Atlantic basin, which allows the seaweed to spread and take hold in different parts of the ocean.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
• The more particles a bird eats, the greater the chance that those hitchhiking microbes take hold in its gut.
  — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
• Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
• In some uncanny way, the steady rhythm of my step allows new ideas to surface and take hold in my mind.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• But a growing call to thwart these efforts has been taking hold.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• By the time the fences came down two months later, an encampment had taken hold on Franklin.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• In that path, the moon will fully block the sun’s light and darkness will take hold for a few minutes in the middle of the afternoon.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Any replacement patches need to be about 10 times the size of the tear in order to ensure that the sod will take hold and flourish.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2022
• If the virus were to take hold or spread outside of the local area, the effects could be catastrophic.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• As the grind of the season takes hold and legs become heavy, energy from the home crowd will assume a greater role in shaping the course of events.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• And production cuts by OPEC and its allies have begun to take hold.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 7 July 2023
• Hold your head up high and don't let their negative energy take hold of your day!
  — Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
• Will Chauncey Billups’ defensive schemes and demands take hold?
  — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2022
• That’s when my eating disorder was really able to get its claws in and take hold.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 30 Oct. 2023
• But since those companies left and took those jobs with them, the area has struggled to replace them and poverty and crime began to take hold.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
• That project failed to take hold, and Willis eventually steered her focus back to music.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
• To many, this means shattering the relative sense of normalcy that has taken hold in cities far from the front line.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• That’s a far cry from taking hold of the UCLA job as a freshman and lifting the program to the rarefied heights expected out of a five-star recruit.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Americans want the fighting to end and call for diplomatic channels to take hold.
  — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Observations made by the Planck spacecraft of the very early universe — where the first seeds of structure took hold — find a value of 0.83.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
• New Line’s latest Final Destination movie has lined up some fresh young blood for Death to take hold of.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2024
• Wake said that despite some rough edges this year as the new map takes hold, the ultimate outcome will pay benefits for many years.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
• There are exceptions, but the second year is when the culture should start to take hold and the improvement should be noticeable.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024