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Example sentences for: inroads

How can you use “inroads” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He has disappointed conservatives by treating rent control as part of natural law, and by making no serious inroads on the city's bloated labor costs.
Although automation of sewing operations is generally not cost effective, these innovations have made some inroads in particular segments.
And while multinational chains have made inroads, they seem less blatant here than elsewhere.
This meaning is obsolete, but it hung on until late in the last century, even though the current sense of `offensive or highly disagreeable' began to make inroads as early as c. 1600.
The Post piece says Castro is making diplomatic inroads in the English-speaking Caribbean as U.S. aid drops, while the NYT notes that it was the U.S. that actually finished the airport the Cubans were working on at the time of the invasion.