Sentence examples for grasp a foothold from inspiring English sources

Some of you called someone on the way home, some of you waited until you had a plan, a grasp, a foothold.

But the need for the deal had been so urgent that Nokia and Microsoft, grasping for a foothold in a mobile computing industry that was quickly slipping away from them, had gone public without a definitive legal agreement, just a handshake and a promise to work together, somehow.

Harry was quick to grasp a situation.

Grasped a difficult concept?

Feel your hands grasping an invisible rope.

With these three qualities taken together -- right effort, concentration, and mindfulness -- hindrances like grasping, anger, sluggishness, restlessness, or doubt cannot find a home, a foothold in the mind, when they arise.

"We had a foothold there.

Are plug-in cars establishing a foothold?

But it had a foothold.

They established a foothold for modernist art.

Gradually, however, the Posh gained a foothold.