How to Use headway in a Sentence

headway

noun

• Search teams had been making headway, but their efforts stalled when the pandemic hit.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020
• After the votes were counted, Democrats hadn’t made much headway in closing the gap.
  — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• Tomorrow night: The front doesn’t make much headway northward and starts coming back our way overnight.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• Detectives focused on Ellis, the boyfriend, but couldn’t make any headway.
  — Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• Trump campaign legal challenges to voting results seen as unlikely to make headway.
  — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Experts had warned that the country needed to take steps at the end of the summer and the beginning of the fall to make headway in suppressing its infection rate.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 20 Oct. 2020
• Poptimism is clearly making headway: more rap, more Robyn, more Shakira, more Lady Gaga.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Firefighters have made significant headway over the succeeding two weeks to corral the unprecedented blitzkrieg of giant wildfires.
  — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2020
• Global auto makers have made considerable headway since the summer, but that progress is now being endangered by the trajectory of the pandemic.
  — William Boston, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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 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 | [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
• As previously noted, a stand-alone movie was announced in 2022, which hasn’t seen much headway.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024
• Congress hasn’t made much headway on a national framework for regulating generative AI.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024