gain 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.