make headway
idiom
: to move forward or make progress
The wind kept the boat from making headway toward shore.
The boat made little headway against the strong current.
We're gradually making headway with the project.
They've recently made some headway in their search for a cure.
Examples of 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.
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Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
Russian forces will likely try to make headway in the Zaporizhzhia oblast as well, particularly around Orikhiv, where the terrain is open and fewer Ukrainian defensive positions have been prepared.
—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2024
The message is especially potent as companies continue to make headway on AI models intended to revolutionize how humans live and work.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
With pressure from the Biden administration growing, the clock is ticking for the IDF to make headway in weakening Hamas’s military infrastructure.
—Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
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
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
And in some places, young people had begun to make headway.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
For Ukrainian soldiers struggling to make headway against entrenched Russian troops, the counteroffensive is taking on a new urgency as summer gives way to shorter days, drenching rain and then snow.
—WSJ, 18 Sep. 2023
Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
Russian forces will likely try to make headway in the Zaporizhzhia oblast as well, particularly around Orikhiv, where the terrain is open and fewer Ukrainian defensive positions have been prepared.
—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2024
The message is especially potent as companies continue to make headway on AI models intended to revolutionize how humans live and work.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
With pressure from the Biden administration growing, the clock is ticking for the IDF to make headway in weakening Hamas’s military infrastructure.
—Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
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
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
And in some places, young people had begun to make headway.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
For Ukrainian soldiers struggling to make headway against entrenched Russian troops, the counteroffensive is taking on a new urgency as summer gives way to shorter days, drenching rain and then snow.
—WSJ, 18 Sep. 2023
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