How to Use trailblazer in a Sentence

trailblazer

noun

• To the rest of the baseball world, Davis is known as a trailblazer.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• Yes, each was a wife, a mother, and a trailblazer of her time.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2022
• The fashion world is mourning the death of a true trailblazer.
  — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• At the same time, being a trailblazer means putting your ego aside.
  — Ashley Foster, VIBE.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• And Lucy, the brilliant trailblazer, didn’t don her capri pants often enough to own the look.
  — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
• But dbar came first, opening in 2005, a trailblazer on this stretch of Dot Ave.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
• Now is the perfect time for Gibson to get her due as a true pop trailblazer.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2022
• Born in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, Horne was a trailblazer.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022
• In some ways, Christmas, who is Black, is a trailblazer.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Truth is, there’s a lot of sleaze out there, and politicians seem to be trailblazers at slinging it.
  — Patrick Wallis, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
• At 13 years old, Momiji Nishiya is now a trailblazer in her Olympic sport.
  — Taylor Dutc, Glamour, 26 July 2021
• About the subject: Brown is the founder of Old Forester Bourbon and known as a trailblazer in the whiskey bottling business.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2022
• Simpson was a football icon, an NFL hall of famer and a trailblazer.
  — NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
• Off the field, Morgan has been a trailblazer for equal pay and equal treatment of women in sports.
  — Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• The buzz: Roque, 21, was already a trailblazer, playing on her high school’s boys team.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2022
• As the team roared to the tunnel, legendary Aztecs coach Steve Fisher slapped hands with the trailblazers sprinting past.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• King is the most recent actress to portray the trailblazer.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• Williams joked of being a trailblazer with his candor on the subject.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 29 Oct. 2023
• Now, the trailblazer is opening the area’s first seltzery concept, Summit Seltzer — one of the few taprooms of its kind in the United States.
  — Deanna Taylor, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The soft-spoken man who grew up Harlem and moved to San Diego in 1996 became a tennis trailblazer in the shadows.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
• Jinx's owner, Mia, signed her up, and this trailblazer has now opened doors for other pets who want to rule Hell.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 28 Apr. 2022
• Ewers, those close to him will tell you, never set out to be a trailblazer in the Name, Image and Likeness era.
  — Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2022
• But there’s more to know about Black people in the sport even before the trailblazer made history.
  — Essence, 2 Feb. 2022
• Deer was a trailblazer in every sense of the word, living a life filled with firsts and paving the way for other Native leaders.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
• Brad was a true trailblazer, paving the way for gay men and Real Housewives everywhere to team up.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• Nike is a trailblazer in the DTC space, driving up its revenues and market share by quickly adopting the trend.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• Lena Horne was a trailblazer during her lifetime, becoming one of the first Black female stars to make it to the top rungs of show business.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 June 2022
• Showing this much skin was daring for a royal, but Princess Diana was a trailblazer through and through.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2022
• As a trailblazer on the court and on the sidelines, Dawn Staley’s tenure in the basketball world has been nothing short of historic.
  — Sharí Nycole, Essence, 12 Aug. 2022
• Lilly Ledbetter, equal pay trailblazer who changed U.S. law, has died at 86.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024