English example sentences with "foothold"

I have made a foothold.
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Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops.
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The festivities were held as usual this year, extending through most of February, precisely when the coronavirus was taking a foothold in America.
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Britain is apparently working to get a foothold in Algeria.
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On every side, far as the eye could reach, was a long expanse of flat sand, merging into the sea-line, with not a vestige of rock to afford foothold or shelter for wild-fowl of any kind.
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"China is trying to get a foothold in the Middle East." "The United States has got a foothold in almost every country on the planet."
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