Sentence examples for was taking hold from inspiring English sources

Panic was taking hold.

The need was taking hold.

Wenhua re — "culture fever" — was taking hold.

The habit was taking hold.

A new idea of reading was taking hold.

A mood of "let Greece go" was taking hold.

Perhaps Reuters's account was correct, and a truce really was taking hold at that point.

Stocks were also helped by a sign that the global recovery was taking hold.

Unfortunately, by the time it opened in 2008, the recession was taking hold.

For several months, a stream of economic indicators has signaled that the recovery was taking hold.

Yet in the spring of 2004, a violent insurgency was taking hold in Iraq.