How to Use gather momentum/strength in a Sentence
gather momentum/strength
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Landmasses help to slow storms that gather strength across oceans.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
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That’s crucial, because storms gather strength over the ocean.
—Elena Shao, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
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In a world where most people are able to peer beyond national borders, a trend of any kind can gather strength quickly.
—Madeleine K. Albright, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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Warm water acts like fuel for hurricanes, feeding storms energy and heat to gather strength at a rapid pace.
—NBC News, 26 Sep. 2024
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In the days, weeks, and months leading up to the launch, your goal should be to build anticipation and gather momentum.
—Rebecca Shaddix, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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El Niño began midway through 2023 and often takes months to gather strength.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2024
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Mandarin Hero was running mid-pack in the eight-horse field and also started to gather momentum.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
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That seems to be a worry starting to gather momentum with the British government.
—Neil Winton, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
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This August’s narrow miss hints that buyer demand may be starting to gather strength earlier than usual.
—John Walkup, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
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Fittingly for a singer-songwriter who seems to gather strength in dark, ambiguous moments, what could be an act of avoidance starts feeling like a firm epiphany.
—Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
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The trend continued to gather strength in the first two weeks of April despite price increases at the beginning of the year, as reported.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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But even as the police start closing in on their objective, the investigation fails to gather momentum.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
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He was quickly joined by others as the group began rocking the SUV back and forth to gather momentum to put it back on its wheels.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
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If the Spurs can manage to keep their sanity, the trip sets up as an opportunity to gather momentum in the playoff race.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
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News footage showed people in Kyushu starting to gather at gymnasiums, before winds gather momentum in the evening.
—Yuri Kageyama, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2020
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But there are other threats out there in the era of crises; threats equally detrimental to our wellbeing and way of life that quietly gather momentum just beneath the radar.
—Erika James, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
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For most of the season, there was a desire here for the Ravens to get better, gather momentum and head into the playoffs to make a significant run.
—Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2021
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Komunyakaa tends to reach peak intensity in longer works that afford him the space to stretch out, gather momentum and amplify resonances.
—Washington Post, 29 June 2021
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But pressure has been building for Biden to intervene more forcefully as other diplomatic efforts gather strength.
—Time, 20 May 2021
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Across the globe, identity initiatives will continue to gather momentum.
—Lila Kee, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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But as regulators continue to gather strength, lawmakers are finally starting to show signs of life on the crypto front, with this week emerging as the most eventful so far this year.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 8 Mar. 2023
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As the Tings gather momentum on social media, the designs evolved further — partially thanks to its impressive fanbase.
—Angela Lei, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
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Yet even as efforts to shut down the facility gather strength, some officials and environmental advocates are skeptical such a move will help.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
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The movement has continued to gather momentum locally with more protests planned for this weekend, including one in Palmer on Saturday.
—Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
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This question started to gather momentum, shaking the foundational pillars of banking and financial services.
—Sixteen Ramos, Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2023
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Hull’s prediction would reach full flower only decades later, spurred by a series of epochal economic, legal and cultural changes that began to gather momentum in the 1970s.
—Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 June 2021
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Hurricanes, in contrast, gather strength over days, can span hundreds of miles, and are visible to satellites, yielding ample time and information to generate useful forecasts, issue alerts, and get people out of the way.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 June 2024
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Kyiv believes that Moscow is still seeking to install a puppet government in Ukraine and will use any respite in the fighting to gather strength before opportunistically resuming the battle.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
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Ian, meanwhile, continues to churn and gather strength just south of Cuba, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center.
—Emre Kelly, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
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The roots of these circumstances within the forum dated back to the middle of 2020, when interest in GameStop investment began to gather momentum.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
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