blaze a trail
idiom
1
: to show a trail with marks on trees
We followed a trail that others had blazed.
2
: to be the first one to do something and to show others how to do it
The company blazed a trail with the first small computers.
She blazed a trail for other women in politics.
Examples of blaze a trail in a Sentence
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Ras and Kathy Vaughan wanted to blaze a trail — sort of.
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Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
The group emerged from the vibrant New York underground rock scene of the early 1980s and went on to blaze a trail of independence and innovation throughout the rock world, even after signing to major label Geffen Records in 1990.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 13 Nov. 2023
Uy, who joined the UMass Lowell faculty in 2011, already has helped blaze a trail for Southeast Asian educators as the first Lao refugee to be granted tenure as a professor of education in the nation, and the first to earn an education doctorate from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
At first, Dickinson was proud to blaze a trail for women on television.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
May everyone who reads this, blaze a trail for their family to be able to walk in the future.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
This fall and winter Slow Burn will blaze a trail through the Bay Area, back down the coast to pop-ups in Los Olivos, Lompoc and New Cuyama, then to a series of cities in Canada.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
The outspoken child who worked the field picking beans and peppers went on to blaze a trail in the world of local politics, making history as Broward’s first Black county commissioner.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
If there’s pressure on him to blaze a trail or inspire, Rowe is OK with that.
—Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
The group emerged from the vibrant New York underground rock scene of the early 1980s and went on to blaze a trail of independence and innovation throughout the rock world, even after signing to major label Geffen Records in 1990.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 13 Nov. 2023
Uy, who joined the UMass Lowell faculty in 2011, already has helped blaze a trail for Southeast Asian educators as the first Lao refugee to be granted tenure as a professor of education in the nation, and the first to earn an education doctorate from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
At first, Dickinson was proud to blaze a trail for women on television.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
May everyone who reads this, blaze a trail for their family to be able to walk in the future.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2022
This fall and winter Slow Burn will blaze a trail through the Bay Area, back down the coast to pop-ups in Los Olivos, Lompoc and New Cuyama, then to a series of cities in Canada.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
The outspoken child who worked the field picking beans and peppers went on to blaze a trail in the world of local politics, making history as Broward’s first Black county commissioner.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
If there’s pressure on him to blaze a trail or inspire, Rowe is OK with that.
—Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
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