Sample Sentences forinroads (auto-selected)
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It was midway through September when Ruth May made her inroads.† (source)
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But even in their failures they made inroads into understanding the manipulation of space/time.† (source)
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Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even the least attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.† (source)
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The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.† (source)
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My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.† (source)
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Jack drank gratefully, feeling the gin hit and crumble away the first inroads of sobriety.† (source)
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We had begun to make inroads against these people.† (source)
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I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.† (source)
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My names have come nat'rally, and I suppose the one I bear now will be of no great lasting, since the Delawares seldom settle on a man's ra'al title, until such time as he has an opportunity of showing his true natur', in the council, or on the warpath; which has never behappened me; seeing firstly, because I'm not born a red-skin and have no right to sit in their councillings, and am much too humble to be called on for opinions from the great of my own colour; and, secondly, because this is the first war that has befallen in my time, and no inimy has yet inroaded far enough into the colony, to be reached by an arm even longer than mine.† (source)
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Whites had only made such inroads because the Reds could never unite under one leader.† (source)
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It was an inroad, minor but vital, and perhaps not so minor.† (source)
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She had made no advance, no inroads at all.† (source)
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On Saturday afternoon Liza checked her work, left a list of instructions as long as her arm to cover every possibility from colic to an inroad of grease ants, packed her traveling basket, and had Lee drive her home.† (source)
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Chinese women are also making inroads in fields that were once overwhelmingly male.† (source)
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A dollar sixty-five a day was simply not enough to feed them, and there was no use trying; and so each week they made an inroad upon the pitiful little bank account that Ona had begun.† (source)
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But if we keep making inroads into the city, we might find a pretty who wants out.† (source)
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