How to Use headway in a Sentence

headway

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  • The company clearly failed to make much headway with the Fed chair.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some of their attempts to make headway were touching in their naïveté.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Read on for five Cannes projects that could make headway at the Oscars as the year progresses.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 June 2022
  • But a program that is making major headway may run out of funds within the next year.
    — Sammer Marzouk, STAT, 20 July 2023
  • However, there is one project that has made some headway.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But the students and on-board faculty persisted and, in fits and starts, made headway.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • But Uber was beginning to make headway and lock in allies.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
  • Time is running short for the other candidates to make any headway.
    — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Whether Hoyer made any headway with Cubs fans is debatable, but at least he wasn’t booed.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
  • But a call between French President Macron and Putin appears to have made headway.
    — ABC News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The new subvariant has a change in the spike protein seen in other Omicron strains making headway.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • And the teams are already making headway at cutting down the lists of players to compete in the regular season.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Trump made headway, it should be noted, with many blue collar workers.
    — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In recent weeks he’s made no headway in closing the wide gap with former President Trump.
    — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Still, there has been plenty of conversation - without much headway - on what the next version of the playoff will look like.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 8 July 2022
  • In the recent past, Region 4 teams have had a difficult time making headway against Region 3 in the Class 7A playoffs.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But right now, the intent is to really go after the ByteDance-TikTok dynamic and make some headway there.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But nearly two years later, there’s still a glaring racial divide in the top echelons of the business world, though headway has been made.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 23 May 2022
  • Instead of relying on your words to help you to make headway right now, put your ideas in motion on your own and show them the finished product later.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2022
  • 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
  • Elsewhere, other efforts have made headway in banishing the slur at the state level.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • So far the project’s eclectic group of volunteers have made impressive headway.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
  • First gaining headway in the U.S. in the mid-19th century, the front porch today epitomizes the American way of life—and offers a front-row seat to the rhythm of your neighborhood.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
  • What kind of headway have violence interrupters made with some of the people involved in this conflict?
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • 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
  • Plaintiffs have also made headway on the exclusion point.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 18 July 2022
  • The declines in these areas for those who abstained from using were more striking, but fewer were able to make that leap, and many others didn't make any headway.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • López Obrador says his strategy is making headway, with an 8-percent drop in homicides this year.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • After settling in defensively, both teams ping-ponged the ball around the field with neither side making much headway.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2022

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