foothold

Example Sentences

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And then when I learned my daddy was gone, too, I slipped into a dark, churning river with no foothold.

From Literature

Beijing will not want to jeopardise the fragile trade truce it just signed with the US, but it won't want to lose its foothold in Latin America either.

From BBC

It created the name Biscoff—a combination of biscuit and coffee—when it sought to gain a foothold in the U.S. about 50 years later.

From The Wall Street Journal

The U.K. capital’s IPO market was helped by stabilizing global markets following U.S. tariff hikes in April, as well as by demergers and non-U.K. companies seeking a foothold in the country, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Beijing appears to have few tools to influence the deal given Manus’s foothold in Singapore.

From The Wall Street Journal