How to Use make headway in a Sentence

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  • The Warriors might need to go 4-1 our win each of their last five games to make headway.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The 2019 bill passed the House but failed to make headway in the Senate.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 3 Dec. 2020
  • There’s at least some chance that the Red Sox could make headway in the second half of 2023.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Some of their attempts to make headway were touching in their naïveté.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • And in some places, young people had begun to make headway.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Read on for five Cannes projects that could make headway at the Oscars as the year progresses.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 June 2022
  • Now, as Trump feuds with Iowa’s governor, mulls skipping the first debate, will the rest of the field find a way to make headway?
    — ABC News, 16 July 2023
  • Pollert sought a tougher strength of schedule this season to push his team and make headway in the power rankings.
    — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Ethereum has also struggled to make headway, with its rally coming off the boil at just over the $4,000 per ether mark.
    — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • A day after Wakeland’s 8-1 win in Game 1, both teams struggled to make headway on the scoreboard.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
  • But Uber was beginning to make headway and lock in allies.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • To make matters worse, the Dolphins bring a top-five offense to SoFi Stadium against a defense that just can’t seem to make headway.
    — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Experts had warned that the country needed to take steps at the end of the summer and the beginning of the fall to make headway in suppressing its infection rate.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Gonsalves has worked with A.L.S. advocates, guiding them on how best to make headway.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • In recent weeks, Twitter seemed to make headway in persuading some brands to return to its platform.
    — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That paves the way to any number of policies Whitmer and fellow Democrats failed to make headway on during the governor's first term and for the years prior in Lansing.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2022
  • To make headway in this environment, Democrats can take some comfort in the diversity of their base.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
  • His reach continues to be felt among the state’s prep coaches, while second-year Auburn coach Bryan Harsin and his staff are still trying to make headway on the in-state recruiting trail.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The high stakes for communities trying to make headway on climate reforms are underscored by the slow path to get there.
    — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The drills come as Russia steps up its missile attacks on Ukraine, nearly eight months into its invasion and as its troops struggle to make headway on the ground.
    — Natalia Drozdiak, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Eager to make headway where the sleuths of Scotland have not, Emma sets out one night to investigate the Kane family mansion.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021
  • As the rescuers began to make headway with the hammering, another problem arose.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
  • For a variety of reasons, Harris has been struggling to make headway in games recently.
    — Stephen K. Hirst, Wired, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Polls had shown him struggling to make headway in the competition, and Sununu had said that low-performing candidates should drop out early in the process.
    — Chris Sununu, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • But, despite the fact that the Democrats were unusually open to ceding ground on asylum, talks stalled last Friday, and the failure to make headway on border spending meant that more aid to Ukraine was doomed, too.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • An hourlong call between Biden and Putin earlier this month failed to make headway in easing tensions, leaving both sides at an impasse.
    — Time, 21 Feb. 2022
  • And if DeSantis doesn’t make headway, well, that’s far from reassuring.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
  • For Progress is an effort to not only make headway against the big global challenges captured in the SDGs but also address two other obstacles.
    — Dane Stangler, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • In 2019, a video of white students using racist and anti-Semitic slurs surfaced in Hoover, which had just begun to make headway in desegregation efforts.
    — al, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Street conditions remain poor, though, and some may wonder whether private philanthropy can make headway where the public sector has failed.
    — Stephen Eide, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023

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