How to Use pick up speed/momentum in a Sentence

pick up speed/momentum

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• It is forecast to track to the north and pick up speed this weekend.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 23 Oct. 2020
• This vicious cycle is how bear markets form and pick up speed.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
• Cease-fire talks are expected to pick up speed in the coming days.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• The budget-making process is just starting to pick up speed in the House.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
• If the slope is less than 25 degrees, there might be little slips, but the snow won’t pick up speed.
  — Nathalie Vriend, The Conversation, 11 Jan. 2024
• If the slope is less than 25 degrees, there might be little slips, but the snow won't pick up speed.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• If the road slopes downward, even a single degree, the vehicle will pick up speed.
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Such a shift out of the S&P 500 is when the downtrend could pick up speed.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
• The hurricane center said Kyle will stay on a path to the east-northeast and pick up speed over the next few days.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 14 Aug. 2020
• Evelyn’s videos soon began to pick up speed in the way only TikTok videos can.
  — Dianna Mazzone Singh, Allure, 2 Apr. 2024
• The storm died down that afternoon, but in the evening, the rain began again, and the winds were forecasted to pick up speed as well.
  — Clara McMichael, Curbed, 15 Jan. 2022
• The airport, the ground transportation, the hotel, the snacks, and watching the plane pick up speed and taking off.
  — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• Add-on accessories like merry-go-rounds, centrifugal funnels, and mills help the marble to pick up speed.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 22 Oct. 2023
• Javier was moving northwest at 10 mph and was expected to pick up speed and turn westward over the coming days.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• Crews were keeping an eye on the winds, which had been light and from the west but were forecast to shift to the southwest and may pick up speed, Moore said.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2021
• The winds of the streaming wars were just starting to pick up speed, and Buffering aimed to serve as a battle guide to the conflicts to come.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
• Clipper will first fly to Mars to slingshot around the planet and pick up speed in early 2025.
  — Jay Bennett, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
• Ukraine’s advance could still pick up speed before its ammunition runs out and winter sets in, Kofman added.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• With the Rams appearing to pick up momentum, the Eagles defense came up huge.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
• Cycling continues to pick up speed as one of San Diego’s most popular pastimes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• That gives us the opportunity to enjoy both high yield and the potential for outsized gains should the stock market pick up speed.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Winds pick up speed and become gusty this afternoon with gusts up to 35 mph across the mountains and up to 25 mph elsewhere.
  — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 23 Mar. 2025
• The storytelling doesn’t pick up speed and urgency until the last hundred or so pages, when the coronavirus enters the picture.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• The changes in America that happened through the late ’60s and the ’70s really pick up speed.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• After a slow start, Advance Denim is seeing the market pick up momentum.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2024
• Fichtenbaum expressed worry about those trends and said the vaccine campaign needs to pick up speed and reach more Ohioans who are reluctant to get the shot.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2021
• The pilots did pick up speed during their heats, with two actually bumping into each other but remaining in the air as a crowd watched in wonder.
  — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• Despite a slow start in North American, the film's box office totals continued to pick up speed and stayed steady for the rest of the month.
  — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2021
• Sam, the fourth major hurricane of 2021, is expected to pick up speed on Thursday.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• The storm is also expected to pick up speed, with impacts possibly reaching the central Gulf Coast by midweek.
  — Fox News, 25 Oct. 2020