As a result, he tends not to sell, letting the snowball gather weight as it rolls downhill.
If I went to the mall immediately and got a new sheet, then the chore wouldn't have time to gather weight.
Some gather weight over time, as with the victory of Texas Western's black starting five against an all-white Kentucky team in the 1966 N.C.A.A. basketball finals.
If Mr Miller loosens his purse strings more, the case for slowing down the EU's enlargement, still more or less scheduled for 2004, may gather weight.
Reviews speak to features and initial experience but brands gather weight over time and they speak to emotion and narrative more than function.
In their reviews for The Observer, Steve Yates praised Saadiq's "fine way with a simple lyric", while Kitty Empire found it "both feather-light and substantial" because of how, "unlike most modern records, Saadiq's tunes gather weight the deeper in you go".
The 2004 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report suggests that schools gather weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) measurements on students annually and that schools communicate the results of screening to parents [ 2].
