How to Use take hold in a Sentence
take hold
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The war in Gaza could end or a cease-fire could take hold.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
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So take hold of it and grab the reins to a new tomorrow.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
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But as the rise of year-round wreaths took hold, so did the rise of year-round front door bows.
—Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024
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The idea took hold, and Spiro entered Harvard Law School in 2005.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
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Home prices peaked in June 2022, then dipped through the rest of the year as the housing recession took hold.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
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The first few months of 2022 has seen many different hair trends take hold.
—Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2022
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But since peace took hold here 25 years ago, the neighborhood feels worlds away from that past.
—Megan Specia, New York Times, 7 June 2024
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My plan was to keep taking them to restaurants, keep up the discipline, and wait for the habits to take hold.
—Megan Angelo, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
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This resurgence is a great standout as the maxi took hold of the spotlight this summer.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
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When a new queen began her reign, a new dialect appeared to take hold.
—Emily Anthes, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
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The Gulf Stream shuttles the plants around the Atlantic basin, which allows the seaweed to spread and take hold in different parts of the ocean.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
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The more particles a bird eats, the greater the chance that those hitchhiking microbes take hold in its gut.
—WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
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Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
—Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2024
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In some uncanny way, the steady rhythm of my step allows new ideas to surface and take hold in my mind.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 13 July 2023
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But a growing call to thwart these efforts has been taking hold.
—Char Adams, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
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By the time the fences came down two months later, an encampment had taken hold on Franklin.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
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In that path, the moon will fully block the sun’s light and darkness will take hold for a few minutes in the middle of the afternoon.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
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Any replacement patches need to be about 10 times the size of the tear in order to ensure that the sod will take hold and flourish.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2022
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If the virus were to take hold or spread outside of the local area, the effects could be catastrophic.
—WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
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As the grind of the season takes hold and legs become heavy, energy from the home crowd will assume a greater role in shaping the course of events.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
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And production cuts by OPEC and its allies have begun to take hold.
—David Uberti, WSJ, 7 July 2023
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Anxiety and urgency took hold as the nonprofit took in the scope of the predicament.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
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Hold your head up high and don't let their negative energy take hold of your day!
—Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2022
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Will Chauncey Billups’ defensive schemes and demands take hold?
—oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2022
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That’s when my eating disorder was really able to get its claws in and take hold.
—Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 30 Oct. 2023
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But since those companies left and took those jobs with them, the area has struggled to replace them and poverty and crime began to take hold.
—Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
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That project failed to take hold, and Willis eventually steered her focus back to music.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
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To many, this means shattering the relative sense of normalcy that has taken hold in cities far from the front line.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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That’s a far cry from taking hold of the UCLA job as a freshman and lifting the program to the rarefied heights expected out of a five-star recruit.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
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If futures are any indication, calmer minds could be taking hold.
—Abid Ali, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
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