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How to use toehold in a sentence

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We have to show them they can't have a toehold in Leeds, that there is no place for people who sow seeds of hatred and division.
So how can first-time buyers find ways out of this situation and at least get a toehold on to the elusive housing market ladder?
And they are appealing for the public to use the hotline to help stop other dealers from getting a toehold here.
He realises that his party is battling hard to retain a toehold in what was once its bastion.
Janet carefully swung one leg over the sill and rested her small foot on the narrow toehold as she shifted the rest of her through the opening.
Few independent comic artists have succeeded in gaining a toehold in the lucrative spin-off market.
Furthermore, his trademark fusion of ornate mysticism and lurid pop-art aesthetics had taken a toehold in New York's art scene as well.
Younger workers, who have used computers their entire lives, are now gaining a toehold in the workplace.
Quite simply, local young people are being squeezed right out of the housing market, quite unable to contemplate gaining even a toehold.
If any form of sexual license is condemned then it leaves a toehold for other forms of sexual license to be condemned.
The far western edge of the yard held back the weeds, wild alfalfa, buckbrush and whatever else could find a toehold out there.
One step after another I fumbled for a toehold, my legs weak and my grip moist.
He may not know a flying drop kick from a toehold, but he created the opening salvo in a soon to be exploitation standard.
Slowly but surely, carry bags made of newspapers and cloth discards as well as coconut-shell cups and spoons are gaining a toehold in the resort.
Having established a toehold, the parent company then looks to expand with further acquisitions.
Your weight shifts and, incredibly, your right foot catches a toehold.
Her hands grasped the tiniest cracks and protuberances and without thought to where they would take her, her feet scrambled for the slightest toehold!
Like Héctor, many others fall on to the track in the scramble to get any sort of toehold on the daily train.
State elections in the north-east will bring no cheer, whereas in the south it has problems in Karnataka, its only toehold.
Smaller numbers of Bulgarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, Georgians and Russians also have a toehold in Greece.
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If the United Nations gets a toehold out here, the whole Belt will go into their pocket, you realize that.
Tremont hooked a foot under a toehold to maintain his position facing a mirror.
He searched the rear hull, looking for some break in the polished metal that might serve as a toehold.
His foot found a toehold and he drew himself up to where another rough outcrop gave grip for his hand.
Hooking into the solid green water of that eddy, Andy found himself a toehold, and presently clambered out.
You've got to get a toehold yourself before you can look at a girl.
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