How to Use toehold in a Sentence

toehold

noun

• American companies looking for toeholds in foreign markets.
• The same is true of Libya, the group’s toehold in North Africa.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• The price of that first home, that first toehold in this great city, keeps climbing, beyond the reach of so many.
  — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
• But the sport is gaining a foothold, or at least a toehold, in Mexico.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• A number of them are newer events hoping to get a toehold in San Diego for years to come.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
• One of the trustees’ ideas already has a toehold in the Legislature.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2020
• At the same age, Ortiz was searching for a toehold as a platoon player with the Twins.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
• While many of us were sleeping, hate gained a toehold in America and came out of the shadows – plucky and full of hubris.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• This could allow the infection to go from a toehold to a full footprint.
  — Andrew Joseph @drewqjoseph, STAT, 14 Dec. 2020
• Now, with hustle and a little help, the family has gained a toehold in New York City.
  — Raúl Vilchis Christopher Lee, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• Yet those roles all came in movies, when such films could still hope to find a toehold at the theatrical box office.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
• That Bianco feels that conflict shows how someone like Watkins could gain a toehold and thrive.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2023
• There are indications that the bank may be looking to expand its toehold in the U.S.
  — Neil Weinberg, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• But June 6 was just one day; the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy merely a toehold.
  — Mark Yost, WSJ, 5 June 2019
• The sport gained a toehold in the United States as early as the 1750s, when a fencing school was operating near Wall Street.
  — Photographs By Desiree Rios, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Since at least 2015, the group’s fighters have gained a toehold in eastern Afghanistan, near the country’s border with Pakistan.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
• The offshore wind industry has struggled to get a toehold on the West Coast, even as projects begin to take off on the Atlantic Seaboard.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2021
• But as long as scammers and Twitter exist, keeping a toehold on the platform might be a good thing.
  — Max Eddy, PCMAG, 1 June 2023
• Slack offers a toehold in the workplace and a potential place to market any and all office needs.
  — Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017
• That contract, worth $1.6 billion, gave SpaceX a toehold in the space industry.
  — Marc Fisher, Christian Davenport and Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• In the north, Russian forces are trying to approach Kupiansk, which could act as a toehold in the Kharkiv region.
  — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2024
• Just five boxes filled out of a couple hundred in a standard crossword, but often that toehold is all a solver needs to cruise through the rest of the grid.
  — Ross Trudeau, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2021
• With the Sox desperate for a toehold, Houck provided just that.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
• The church attends to more than just the spiritual needs of its parishioners, many of whom are trying to find a toehold in a new country.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• The opportunity has sparked what’s been dubbed as the Green Rush, as growers scramble to get a toehold.
  — Jennifer Kaplan, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Indeed, the Palestinians are denied even a symbolic toehold in or near the ancient heart of the city.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• With the launch of the G70, Hyundai/Kia’s nascent luxury brand, Genesis, has a toehold in its first high-volume segment.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2020
• Neither seems to care much whether his words have a toehold in reality.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• The trees grow only along the coast of California, with a toehold in Oregon, though fossils that go back millions of years can be found around the world.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2020
• If the Allies risked it anyway, but the skies did not clear enough for airborne troops to make their jumps or for Allied warplanes to protect the beachheads, an onrush of German tanks could crush the toeholds on French sand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024