Sentence example with the word 'headway'

headway

advance, ascent, driftway, forwardal, get going, lift, move forward, proceed, recovery, steerageway, upswing

Definition n. vertical space available to allow easy passage under something

Last update: October 3, 2015


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Meanwhile in the Netherlands the sectaries had been making rapid headway in spite of the persecution.   [Please select]

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Both staggered, struggled, and lost their headway.   [Please select]

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"Without you, your government can make no headway in the investigation now on foot."   [Please select]

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After a moment's pause, with a loud chirrup, he launched out, and made tolerable headway.   [Please select]

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Somewhat later the Anabaptist movement made great headway in Holland and Friesland, especially in Amsterdam.   [Please select]

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It was the beginning of a popular movement, which made rapid headway among all classes.   [Please select]

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Sometimes the engine backed the train some distance to get headway to burst through the drift.   [Please select]

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Slowly the little craft, before the freshening wind began to make headway.   [Please select]

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Looks like he hasn't made much headway with June.   [Please select]

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For a little she faced it, her wings whirring madly, her body suspended in mid-air, but she not making headway one inch against the sudden fury of a forty-mile-an-hour wind.   [Please select]

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The captain ordered the wheelman to stop her, though her headway kept her moving for some minutes after the screw ceased to revolve.   [Please select]

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