headway

How To Use headway In A Sentence

• It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.
• They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
• His plan to change the constitution to give more power to the president has made little headway.
• They made little headway popularizing Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament, and the unilateralist tide lacked any consistent direction.
• He was slow to acquire the transactional skills that a conductor needs to make headway the orchestra.
• Sports in general since then has made much headway thanks to those who worked hard for its development in rural districts and thanks to the unstinted efforts made by the present Minister of Sports S.B. Dissanayake at grassroot level.
• To make any serious headway against unemployment, twice that number need to be created.
• Although Democrats appear to be using the faltering economy to their advantage, Youngstown Republicans like McCain volunteer Tracey Winbush say they are making headway.
• They were buying the best rams to improve their breed and made headway in double quick time.
• Instead of speed, other countries should try instead to emulate the Shinkansen's remarkable frequency of train headway.