Sentence examples for first gained traction from inspiring English sources

Red Bull first gained traction with young club-goers seeking a mixer.

Fees were not an issue when debit cards first gained traction in the 1980s.

This theoretical option first gained traction when Trump began to wobble against Cruz under an onslaught of attacks led by former party nominee Mitt Romney.

Introduced in 1972, TCP/IP first gained traction in a single-use case: as the basis for e-mail among the researchers on ARPAnet, the U.S. Department of Defense precursor to the commercial internet.

In name at least, Ebbsfleet echoes the ambition of the garden cities movement that first gained traction at the beginning of the last century, and led to the establishment of Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City as a reaction to England's overcrowded, high density, polluted capital.

In the 1990s, when outlet shopping first gained traction in the U.S., inventory was sparse.

The most notable among them — Clementine, Guild & Greyshkul, Roebling Hall and Rivington Arms — are midsize galleries, where the reputations of up-and-coming artists first gain traction.

It first gains traction in 2000 (when Jenson Button became Britain's youngest-ever F1 driver), zooms ahead in 2004 when he finished in the rankings for the first time, falls back again, then races up in 2009, when he won the World Drivers' Championship.

Photos of Mora and Kirsch keep popping up thanks to Tumblr, after first gaining traction on Reddit.

Many memes first gain traction on Black Twitter – the name given to a subset of the platform's users best known for birthing social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter.

First ChatON gained traction in its efforts to render SMS obsolete.