How to Use pick up steam in a Sentence

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  • But oil tends to pick up steam during the spring and top out during the summer.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The video was first posted online back in April but has since started to pick up steam.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 9 July 2021
  • This bodes well for its awards campaign, which continues to pick up steam.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
  • When the economy begins to pick up steam, these companies will show gains in their stock prices.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
  • That notion has begun to pick up steam among some NFL scouts, and Thursday was an example of why.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Southtown area continues to pick up steam with the opening of a new bar in the Lavaca neighborhood.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The pandemic was just beginning to pick up steam, and the prospect of moving grew more frightening.
    — Esther Wang, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
  • But for many retail businesses and restaurants, foot traffic has been slower to pick up steam.
    — oregonlive, 14 June 2020
  • The housing market downturn continues to pick up steam.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • But the tradition didn’t begin to pick up steam until 1880, Andrews said, when the association moved the end-of-season game to New York.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Auburn continued to pick up steam on the recruiting trail heading into the start of the early signing period.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 20 Dec. 2022
  • But Deutsche Bank saw other units pick up steam in the fourth quarter, including its business catering to corporate clients.
    — Patricia Kowsmann, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The government’s treatment of its own critics offers little hope that the inquiry will suddenly pick up steam.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The city’s recovery continued to pick up steam from there, with the popular Brees and the Saints at the center of fundraising and community service projects to push the rebuilding along.
    — Brett Martel, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • With the war in Ukraine continuing to impact energy prices and inflation on the rise worldwide, Bieler says that these movements are more likely to pick up steam.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 19 Jan. 2023
  • As the series continues to pick up steam on the streamer, many viewers are interested in the real lives of those involved, like Gail Berchtold, who was married to Robert at the time of the first kidnapping.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 Oct. 2022
  • From state legislatures to Congress, bills aiming to stymie the ability of investors to consider ESG factors have begun to pick up steam.
    — David Atkin, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But as the zero-proof movement has continued to pick up steam, a new crop of small-batch bitters makers has turned to an alternative ingredient as a base: glycerin.
    — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Despite searing heat around Southern California, the cross-country season began to pick up steam with some early meets.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The unexpectedly strong hiring gains raise questions about whether the economy, which had been losing momentum over the past several months, is starting to pick up steam again.
    — David Harrison, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Some countries are beginning to tighten entry restrictions to get a handle on its spread, just as international travel had been starting to pick up steam.
    — Danica Coto, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Jeanne Boeh, an economics professor at Augsburg University, said the economic recovery should pick up steam once the vaccines are widely rolled out, but in the meantime, some aspects of it may get worse.
    — Kavita Kumar, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And all the while, the political landscape of Montana continued to shift, with the gubernatorial race expected to pick up steam and have an undeniable impact on events in the new season.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
  • As the movement to diversify corporate leadership continues to pick up steam, executives, board members, and shareholders should consider political diversity in conjunction with racial and gender diversity.
    — Matthew Semadeni, Quartz, 13 July 2021

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