How to Use gather momentum/strength in a Sentence

gather momentum/strength

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• That’s crucial, because storms gather strength over the ocean.
  — Elena Shao, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• Landmasses help to slow storms that gather strength across oceans.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• Once unleashed, the seething tone seemed to gather momentum.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• El Niño began midway through 2023 and often takes months to gather strength.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2024
• 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
• That seems to be a worry starting to gather momentum with the British government.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• As the Tings gather momentum on social media, the designs evolved further — partially thanks to its impressive fanbase.
  — Angela Lei, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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, 29 May 2021
• But pressure has been building for Biden to intervene more forcefully as other diplomatic efforts gather strength.
  — Time, 20 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The bill to ban the practice by licensed health providers in Kentucky did not receive a hearing in either chamber of the state legislature earlier this year, but its bipartisan sponsors hope to gather momentum into next year's session.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2020
• Across the globe, identity initiatives will continue to gather momentum.
  — Lila Kee, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Residents on the small resort island of Polillo are accustomed to severe weather – their island sits in the northeastern Philippines, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean where storms typically gather strength and turn into typhoons.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
• This question started to gather momentum, shaking the foundational pillars of banking and financial services.
  — Sixteen Ramos, Journal Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024