Sentence examples for foothold my from inspiring English sources

Simply put, I've struggled, as so many of us have, to find my foothold, my place in the world.

'Trust to your feet, Jossy,' yells Guido, as I scrabble for a foothold with my crampons in the hard-packed ice below me.

He chose to soothe his wounded pride and balm his aggrieved heart by kidnapping me to gain a controlling foothold over my mother.

I lived and studied in London, Geneva, Vienna, Leiden (close to Amsterdam) and I travelled for interviews or personal pleasure in over 50 countries, but I need a foothold for my adventures.

Until this week's impressive recipe haul, cranberries had the tiniest of footholds in my culinary lexicon.

Clouds Have Been My Foothold All Along shows his glass portrait heads of Picasso and Helmut Kohl, vitreographs from his Night of the Crystal Death – My Love to Anne Frank, a version of his monumental installation Narcissus and the Fountain of Youth, his "anti-functional" free-blown works, and paintings and drawings.

"I thought I might lose some of my foothold in the business," he said.

But 18 months ago my foothold was not on the sheer cliff of senectitude but upon that plateau that Proust himself might have called "entre deux âges".

"Did you ever write something good on Israel?" I raced through my brief journalistic career as a freelancer in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, attempting to find a foothold that would save my ship from wreckage.

Later, I found my own foothold in mind-body-spirit, particularly in interfaith spirituality, where people of all faiths can worship alongside each other.

But it gave me the foothold I needed to find my way in.