How to Use headway in a Sentence

headway

noun

• The 2019 bill passed the House but failed to make headway in the Senate.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 3 Dec. 2020
• 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
• While the firm has made headway in some areas, the news is mixed.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2020
• By the time the film came out in 1929, Oberth had made little headway.
  — David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• 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 group was making headway, but the outcome still wasn’t clear.
  — Georgia Wells, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2020
• Progress over the past 10 years has laid the foundations to make great headway this decade.
  — Fatih Birol For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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
• After the votes were counted, Democrats hadn’t made much headway in closing the gap.
  — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• And Hornig and others are making headway in their own studies.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• But the students and on-board faculty persisted and, in fits and starts, made headway.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2022
• The same goes for the cast members, who are generally working hard and making little headway.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
• While its holdings certainly haven’t been forgotten about over the last few weeks, the majority of them haven’t made much headway.
  — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025