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.

  • 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.

  • While we have made significant inroads, there remains much to be done and it is clear that we cannot do it alone.

  • 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.

  • Ren Xiong, a Shanghai artist who died of tuberculosis in 1857 at age 34, tries to balance Chinese tradition with the inroads of Western art in his unsettling self-portrait.


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