VERB
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obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
win points
After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference
The home team was gaining ground
How To Use gain ground In A Sentence
- Havant in the main were using kicks to gain ground, which given the ground conditions, was a sound ploy.
- I continue to hope "skool" and "enuf" may gain ground in my lifetime. A Speller's Manifesto
- You start to see how principles such as lopping a hand off for stealing might start to gain ground again in this country, after several hundred years of abeyance before the principle of “fairness”. Is fairness enough?
- Thus did ecological explanations regain ground earlier lost to generational ones.
- Only one blue chip managed to gain ground. Times, Sunday Times
- The soldiers fought hard and began to gain ground.
- Sterling continues to gain ground against the dollar.
- The secular temper of the times, however, ensured that the more extreme theories connected with evolution continued to gain ground.
- Only one blue chip managed to gain ground. Times, Sunday Times
- The result has seen them gain ground on rivals Spain and France but they are still well adrift of leaders Brazil.
