Examples of headway in a Sentence
the ant was making little headway carrying a crumb that was about five times his size
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Maryam Afshari in It Was Just an Accident Performances in foreign-language films have historically had a hard time garnering sufficient support during awards season, even as international filmmakers find more and more headway into the Oscar game.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
The Golden State Warriors have been negotiating with restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga for seemingly the entire offseason, but there has been no headway between the two sides.
—Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
As shown below in Figure 1, small stocks represented by the ETF IWM have lagged their large cap peers heavily over the trailing one and two years, but have made some headway in the recent two months.
—Randy Watts, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The White House was able to make some headway in the early months, such as convincing Israel to open up the Israeli port of Ashdod to allow in flour shipments as well as the Kerem Shalom border crossing for humanitarian aid trucks.
—Tom Bowman, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
The Golden State Warriors have been negotiating with restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga for seemingly the entire offseason, but there has been no headway between the two sides.
—Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
As shown below in Figure 1, small stocks represented by the ETF IWM have lagged their large cap peers heavily over the trailing one and two years, but have made some headway in the recent two months.
—Randy Watts, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The White House was able to make some headway in the early months, such as convincing Israel to open up the Israeli port of Ashdod to allow in flour shipments as well as the Kerem Shalom border crossing for humanitarian aid trucks.
—Tom Bowman, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Headway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headway. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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headway
noun
head·way
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: motion forward
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