Words similar to inroads

Example sentences for: inroads

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

In sex-trade circles, English has made even stronger inroads.
This meaning is obsolete, but it hung on until late in the last century, even though the current sense of `offensive or highly disagreeable' began to make inroads as early as c. 1600.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.
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.
The initial report of increased risk of breast cancer and modification of other risk factors by variability in CYP17 was promising for breast cancer research [ 1 ] . Steroid hormones clearly play a large role in breast cancer etiology, and identification of risk associated with genetic differences in their biosynthesis and metabolism could greatly elucidate mechanistic pathways and make inroads towards prevention for public health.