How to Use headway in a Sentence

headway

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  • These charges can quickly add up monthly and prevent people from making headway on their financial goals.
    — Amber Burton, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • But lately, products like Beyond Meat have made headway in being shelved next to the real meat where consumers can see and grab them.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Kremlin-friendly political forces are making headway in Ukraine, and their leader says the time is ripe for further gains.
    — Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • More recently, Black employees have also made some headway in early-stage promotions.
    — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2021
  • And while Coinbase still relies on trading for the lion's share of its revenue, the company has made headway in developing other lines of business.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2021
  • That leaves those in the middle dissatisfied with their voices, but the United Utah Party has struggled, like all third-parties, to make much headway.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Turkey Point’s license extension in 2019 could have been an opportunity to make headway on the issue.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Still, some 2022 prospects are making headway in their recruitments, trimming down their lists in preparation for a possible early decision.
    — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
  • These days, though, the medical community increasingly accepts the condition as real, and doctors have even made some headway in managing its symptoms.
    — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • In the last few years, the city has also made headway on some of the goals set out in the Thrive plan.
    — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2021
  • The next day, unable to make any headway, Ann switched off the fuse.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Women have made less headway on the other side of the bench.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In the war's first two years, the United States was making headway.
    — Kelly McHugh-Stewart, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • ZeroAvia has made some good headway on the project, too.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
  • The company clearly failed to make much headway with the Fed chair.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Whether or not Texas is able to make headway with these new moves is anyone's guess.
    — Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Some of their attempts to make headway were touching in their naïveté.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But the women were unable to make any headway before the clock ran out.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Read on for five Cannes projects that could make headway at the Oscars as the year progresses.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 June 2022
  • By the mid-aughts, Strong was making headway Off Broadway.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
  • There appeared to be some headway over the weekend toward a deal.
    — Sophia Tareen, ajc, 10 Jan. 2022
  • If so, the Tigers have no shortage of talent and options who can make headway at tight end.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Find a way to home in on one or two specific paths to make more useful headway.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But no headway had been made on the question of how to exchange prisoners of war.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • But a program that is making major headway may run out of funds within the next year.
    — Sammer Marzouk, STAT, 20 July 2023
  • That might have been one factor that helped prevent the SPX from making much headway toward the 4200 mark.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • 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
  • However, there is one project that has made some headway.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023

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