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
• Fights over library books erupted in late 2021 and continue to gain steam.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2023
• But as a losing streak started to gain steam, the franchise’s front office decided a spark was needed.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Both respiratory illnesses peak in the winter, so there's still a few months for the viruses to gain steam.
  — Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Beyond House Bill 187, there are other proposals that have yet to gain steam.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2024
• China’s economy will likely gather steam as health restrictions lift.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022
• Net apartment leasing in North Texas topped 4,000 units and has continued to gain steam.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As the push for reparations continues to gain steam, the locomotive is headed to Atlanta.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 June 2023
• 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
• As home electrification continues to gain steam, solar (and storage) installs will continue to go through the roof.
  — Chris Hopper, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• Hernandez says Fox’s publicity team stood by his side as the reports continued to gain steam, but the flames of the media firestorm kept rising.
  — Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
• Regardless, Gaussian splats are continuing to gain steam across the industry.
  — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• Personal checks continued to gain steam until the mid-1990s, when credit and debit cards largely took over.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Their respective performances will be something to monitor against the Cowboys as Glaze continues to gain steam.
  — Tashan Reed, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• More aid and more attacks As ceasefire efforts gather steam, Ukraine’s allies in Europe are working to strengthen Kyiv’s hand militarily.
  — John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
• 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