inroad

How To Use inroad In A Sentence

• What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
• Silver is still desirable, but other metallics and copper tones in costume jewellery are making inroads.
• The prospect of cashing in on the huge émigré market is one reason many Irish retailers are making a concerted effort to make inroads into e-commerce.
• Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks.
• The move towards MP MACs, though, may result in inroads into the business apps and increased sales in that sector? — b Apple in Parallel: Turning the PC World Upside Down? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
• With parallel highways being paved, jitneys were inroading into profits.
• How was this diminutive creature going to make any significant inroads on my mighty frame? Times, Sunday Times
• York probably regretted batting first on a grassy track as Harrogate's quickies, Dave Pennett and Khalid Hussain, made swift inroads so that the visitors were reduced to 59-7 after 27 overs.
• The most effective combinations offer variety and subtlety; one makes inroads, the other exploits them. Times, Sunday Times
• Meanwhile, the big construction companies are trying to grow by making inroads into turf traditionally held by medium-size builders.