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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
- The result has seen them gain ground on rivals Spain and France but they are still well adrift of leaders Brazil.
- As Internet gain ground, the search has made one of application with Internet top utilization rate.
- Furthermore, the driving maul and the scrum began to gain ground and the backs started running on to the ball.
- Isolationism, unilateralism, and protectionism would gain ground.
- The only way Republicans can try to gain ground is to tear down our great President and the Democratic party. DNC paints Pawlenty as liar
- Only one blue chip managed to gain ground. Times, Sunday Times
- Thus did ecological explanations regain ground earlier lost to generational ones.
- Whenever he came into a new territory, he established what he called his chamber of claims, a most convenient device, by which he inquired whether the conquered country or province had any dormant or disputed claimsany cause of complaintany unsettled demand upon any other state or provinceupon which he might wage war upon such state, thereby discover again ground for new devastation, and gratify his ambition by new acquisitions. IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France
- I have always said that the only times Democrats gain ground is when Republicans overplay their hand and their true agenda shows. Think Progress » Duke Cunningham resigns
- Havant in the main were using kicks to gain ground, which given the ground conditions, was a sound ploy.