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progress toward achieving a goalMuch more rarely inroad is used in the singular form to reference an invasion or hostile attack.
- Our new product has made inroads into the Chinese market.
- The researchers have made major inroads into solving the questions surrounding the cause of the disease.
- It's the faithful record of this inconceivable expedition into an element now beyond human reach, but where progress will someday make great inroads.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- But even in their failures they made inroads into understanding the manipulation of space/time.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- But if we keep making inroads into the city, we might find a pretty who wants out.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- They make an inroad into Finn's country, and a battle takes place in which many warriors, among them Hnaef and a son of Finn, are killed.Unknown -- Beowulf
- With his firm health, and the little inroad that age has made upon him, fifteen years or twenty—yes, or perhaps five-and-twenty!Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Chinese women are also making inroads in fields that were once overwhelmingly male.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- When he ascended the throne his country was in a deplorable condition from the repeated inroads of northern invaders.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- Jack drank gratefully, feeling the gin hit and crumble away the first inroads of sobriety.Stephen King -- The Shining
- Whites had only made such inroads because the Reds could never unite under one leader.Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
- Ay, Montcalm has raked the woods for his inroad, and a whooping, murdering set of varlets has he gathered together.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- Black inroads and patches on the slopes showed where a few days back all bad been white.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- She had made no advance, no inroads at all.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- "I know that," I said, seizing this inroad.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
- Allan Wall, the teacher, said that living in Mexico had given him a different perspective on the inroads of Spanish in America.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- It was an inroad, minor but vital, and perhaps not so minor.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- We had begun to make inroads against these people.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
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