VERB
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obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
win points
After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference
The home team was gaining ground
How To Use make 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.
- He was slow to acquire the transactional skills that a conductor needs to make headway the orchestra.
- Besides, to make headway in European and Asian communication and ideas research.
- He is not disappointed at the failure to make headway towards resolving their differences.
- Deal with issues quickly and efficiently and you'll make headway. The Sun
- Heavy earth-moving equipment sent in to clear the mudflows are failing to make headway as torrential rains continue to fall in the region.
- It is surely no boat but we ourselves who are struggling make headway against the current.
- This option largely failed to make headway for many of the basic theoretical reasons that were outlined in Chapter 2.
- Chemists in Germany and elsewhere continued to make headway researching alternatives to alkaline soaps, and after World War I, the wider availability of indoor plumbing brought the word shampoo a big step closer to international recognition. The English Is Coming!
