How to Use headway in a Sentence

headway

noun
  • Jesse goes heads over to lay down the law but can’t make much headway.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • While the firm has made headway in some areas, the news is mixed.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The fire had gained some headway and soon held full sway through the building.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • For the next two-and-a-half years, neither side was able to make any headway.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
  • In recent years women have made some headway on the small screen.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Some of their attempts to make headway were touching in their naïveté.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The next day, unable to make any headway, Ann switched off the fuse.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The group was making headway, but the outcome still wasn’t clear.
    — Georgia Wells, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2020
  • While the agency has made headway, there are still shortfalls.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Whether or not Texas is able to make headway with these new moves is anyone's guess.
    — Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Tony tried to pull him out of the wet snow and onto drier rocks, but couldn’t make headway.
    — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
  • But the women were unable to make any headway before the clock ran out.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Find a way to home in on one or two specific paths to make more useful headway.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
  • There appeared to be some headway over the weekend toward a deal.
    — Sophia Tareen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Plesniak said the movement has made headway in the past week.
    — Ben Brazil, Daily Pilot, 22 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • But until now, their efforts hadn’t made headway, and bills never made it to the floor for a vote.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
  • But evidently enough headway has been made to give some hope that a few more days might lead to a deal.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Bradley does make some major headway on the Wolf River stuff.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The company clearly failed to make much headway with the Fed chair.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Has any federal plan to tax the wealthy made any headway in Congress?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Even so, the company has made little headway.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But making further headway is stymied by the nature of the problem.
    — Jon Marcus, star-telegram, 7 July 2018
  • And Hornig and others are making headway in their own studies.
    — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
  • In the war's first two years, the United States was making headway.
    — Kelly McHugh-Stewart, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
  • If so, the Tigers have no shortage of talent and options who can make headway at tight end.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 15 Mar. 2021
  • After the votes were counted, Democrats hadn’t made much headway in closing the gap.
    — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2020

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