Sentence examples for foothold on from inspiring English sources

By 2 October, one of the division's brigades had gained a foothold on Finschhafen, but soon encountered fierce Japanese resistance.

"I can't get a foothold on that".

This would secure a foothold on every user's hard drive.

What kind of art could find a foothold on this shifting ground?

The government would then, for the first time, lose its foothold on the Jaffna peninsula.

Tells how Arafat wisely chose Jericho as a foothold on the West Bank.

Newfoundland could have been an earlier, colder Cuba — but with a foothold on the American mainland.

After years of saving he recently got a foothold on the property ladder.

It was a little brown bat, trying to get a foothold on the tile grout.

For decades it has barely been able to get a foothold on urban radio.

At their Birmingham conference, the Conservatives struggled to gain a foothold on solid ground.