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Example sentences for: inroads

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This meaning is obsolete, but it hung on until late in the last century, even though the current sense of `offensive or highly disagreeable' began to make inroads as early as c. 1600.
Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
Tourism is making inroads, and restaurants have been designed with day-trippers in mind, but the village remains pristine.
Then in the 1870s and 1880s the modern mass retailer—the department store, the mail order house, and the chain store—started to make inroads on the wholesaler’s markets.
And while multinational chains have made inroads, they seem less blatant here than elsewhere.