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Get to know Toehold better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like status or position.

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Toehold in a sentence

Toehold meaning

  1. A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
  2. Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold.
  3. A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.

Synonyms of Toehold

status position foothold footing wrestling hold

Related words

Other words often associated with Toehold or its synonyms:

support accomplishment situation condition basis posture lay grasp bridgehead terms put clench

Using Toehold

  • The main meaning on this page is: A foothold small enough to support just the toe. | Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold. | A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.
  • Useful related words include: status, position, foothold, footing.
  • In the example corpus, toehold often appears in combinations such as: toehold in, get toehold, drop toehold.

Context around Toehold

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 4 exclamations

Often before:

drop 3× spinning 2× bigger 1×

Often after:

takes 1× blinding 1× looking 1× part 1×

Sentence patterns with Toehold

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a bigger toehold in the 1× a drop toehold from shelley 1× carthage s toehold in sicily 1× democracy s toehold in myanmar 1× drop toehold blinding her 1× get a toehold has been 1× get a toehold in all 1× get a toehold in the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

acey blocked a 1× adam cole cheering 1× although none of 1× as the analysts 1× d s desperate 1× drop toehold blinding 1×

Common sentence endings:

acey a bulldog 1× as night fell 1× better defend drepana 1× bezos controlled amazon 1× enjoy conduct research 1× hitler s defenses 1×

Words around Toehold

Just before it in the word index:

toefl 13 toed 91 toecutter 3 toe 850 tody 2 todt 18

Just after it in the word index:

toei 27 toeing 22 toekomst 2 toeloop 2 toenail 25 toenails 22

Similar in corpus frequency:

aal 24 aalto 24 aardvark 24 aarogya 24 abalos 24 abbess 24

Corpus analysis for Toehold

  • In this selection, "toehold" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, drop, spinning, bigger, takes, blinding and looking stand out and add context to how "toehold" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a bigger toehold in the and a drop toehold from shelley. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "toehold" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with toehold

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

One silver lining could be that independent retailers might get a toehold on the market. (15 words)

Acey blocked a drop toehold from Shelley, but Sabin followed up by giving Acey a bulldog. (16 words)

As the analysts put it, the best way to get a toehold has been when new segments emerge. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Yet the Allies pulled off the impossible by surprising the Germans, securing a beachhead, supplying that toehold in western Europe and then expanding the pocket into a vast 1,000-mile front that in less than a year shattered Hitler’s defenses. (42 words)

The second pass is for toe tricks, which are done by doing wake turns and rotations with only a foot attaching them to the handle; the foot is either in the toehold part of the handle or, professionally, attached to the rope. (42 words)

When United Talent Agency, which represents celebrities like Chris Pratt, Timothée Chalamet, Kevin Hart, Bad Bunny and Lizzo, the esteemed London-based agency Curtis Brown last summer, it made a bold play for a bigger toehold in the book world. (40 words)

Question examples

Rohingya Crisis Demands Australian Leadership on Human RightsWhy Bangladesh Cannot Accept All the RohingyaTime for Pakistan to Apologize to BangladeshDoes Democracy’s Toehold in Myanmar Outweigh the Lives of the Rohingya? (31 words)

Exclamation examples

Adam Cole cheering his buddy on, off the ropes, drop toehold takes Max’s feet out from under him! (19 words)

Punk gets out, again with the flash roundhouse, picking the leg, spinning toehold in the memory of Terry Funk! (19 words)

Drop toehold, blinding her by wrapping her skirt around her face but Naomi gets out and kicks her in the face! (21 words)

Example sentences (20)

Adam Cole cheering his buddy on, off the ropes, drop toehold takes Max’s feet out from under him!

Punk gets out, again with the flash roundhouse, picking the leg, spinning toehold in the memory of Terry Funk!

Ukrainian forces have tried for months to keep a toehold on the town, forcing Moscow to commit significant numbers of troops there in the process.

When United Talent Agency, which represents celebrities like Chris Pratt, Timothée Chalamet, Kevin Hart, Bad Bunny and Lizzo, the esteemed London-based agency Curtis Brown last summer, it made a bold play for a bigger toehold in the book world.

Yet the Allies pulled off the impossible by surprising the Germans, securing a beachhead, supplying that toehold in western Europe and then expanding the pocket into a vast 1,000-mile front that in less than a year shattered Hitler’s defenses.

With every new surveillance device we welcome into our lives, the government gains yet another toehold into our private worlds.

Acey blocked a drop toehold from Shelley, but Sabin followed up by giving Acey a bulldog.

As the analysts put it, the best way to get a toehold has been when new segments emerge.

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Drop toehold, blinding her by wrapping her skirt around her face but Naomi gets out and kicks her in the face!

D.s desperate to keep a toehold in academia depresses adjunct wages, that makes it cheaper for universities to hire them to teach classes and free up time for tenured researchers to do what they enjoy: conduct research.

Meridith Lauzon, 34, of Traverse City, agrees that it’s tough to get a toehold in the housing market.

Spinning toehold, looking for the figure four, Ripley reverses to a cover but can’t put her away!

It all felt so white knuckle in those early years as we were trying so hard to get a toehold in all of this.

One silver lining could be that independent retailers might get a toehold on the market.

Rohingya Crisis Demands Australian Leadership on Human RightsWhy Bangladesh Cannot Accept All the RohingyaTime for Pakistan to Apologize to BangladeshDoes Democracy’s Toehold in Myanmar Outweigh the Lives of the Rohingya?

This will be the second time when Walmart and Google will join hands to get a toehold into the online retail space dominated by Jeff Bezos-controlled Amazon.

Although none of these business initiatives were particularly successful, the Cobalt purchase gave Sun a toehold for its return to the x86 hardware market.

Subsequent guerilla warfare kept the Roman legions pinned down and preserved Carthage's toehold in Sicily, although Roman forces which bypassed Hamilcar forced him to relocate to Eryx, to better defend Drepana.

The Marines endured a fanatical 100-man charge by the Japanese, but were able to keep their toehold on Airfield No. 1 as night fell.

The second pass is for toe tricks, which are done by doing wake turns and rotations with only a foot attaching them to the handle; the foot is either in the toehold part of the handle or, professionally, attached to the rope.

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Common combinations with toehold

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "toehold" in a sentence?
An example: "Adam Cole cheering his buddy on, off the ropes, drop toehold takes Max’s feet out from under him!" This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "toehold" from authentic English texts.
What does "toehold" mean?
Toehold means: A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
What are synonyms of "toehold"?
Common synonyms of "toehold" include: status, position, foothold, footing, wrestling hold.
How many example sentences with "toehold" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "toehold", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.