Now wines from the New World are also making inroads in the local market as well. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Noun : inroads on our savings. From Dictionary.com.
Like the cyberpunks, these writers give us an 'inroad' for understanding and adapting to rapid change in technology. From Wordnik.com. [give me particulars] Reference
It must have made an inroad even in his large fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
There are some signs that Democrats can make an inroad. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2004] Reference
So is the U.N. And we made a little bit of an inroad there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007] Reference
Opposition Bench against this inroad on time of private Members. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference
And actually concrete homes are taking a great inroad to the market. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005] Reference
Gaspar Castaño de la Sosa, when he made his inroad into New Mexico in. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Is he going to make an inroad in that hip-hop crowd for the Republicans?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2009] Reference
Twenty thousand warriors, headed by the king, made an inroad on the Galla. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Then what would be the security against a new inroad of the exterminated vice?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
We took up a little girl who had been in Baltimore during the late Rebel inroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
In October of the same year King Robert made a further inroad into Yorkshire, and won. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
Civilization had made at Malbaie an inroad on the forest and was struggling to advance. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
In that case, a Mike Bloomberg or someone else with deep pockets could make quite an inroad. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2007] Reference
And therefore, they're making a major inroad especially when it comes to moderate evangelicals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008] Reference
Indeed, he had sufficient cause to remember him, for he had made a deep inroad into his patrimony. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Oil started making a big inroad during World War I, and really became the dominant fuel in the 1960s. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Energy Builds Slowly, Despite Federal Cash] Reference
That was the first inroad the oncoming wave of sentiment had made in the bulkhead of local reticence. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
No remedy possesses equal powers in protecting internal organs from the dangerous inroad of this disease. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
Fitzroy would often talk to me upon this subject, and devise schemes for a successful inroad upon his purse. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)] Reference
Government is ever considered so patriotic and humanly powerful that can resist the inroad of "big interests". From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Champlain purposed accompanying a great force of Algonquins and Hurons in an inroad into the Iroquois country. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Within the memory of man the sea has made an inroad of nearly, if not quite, a mile from its former high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Not since the arrival of Ikea on these shores, has Sweden made such an inroad into the American home and imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Larsson's Just The Tip Of The Nordic Literary Iceberg] Reference
Death had now made its first inroad in our family circle, and since then we have laid two other loved ones by her side. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference
Free Trade was a lively inroad into the neighboring baron's lands, and the iportation thence of goodly herds and flocks. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Every day in that store means a year off of your life; every anxious moment means an inroad into your rightful happiness!. From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
Rome or at Constantinople, when arguing at one time a pestilence, at another an insurrection, or an inroad of barbarians. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
The flare of some thirty or forty lighted gas-brackets made an inroad on the fog, and knots of men were laughing and talking. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The Reform Committee repudiates Dr. Jameson's inroad, but publishes its intention to adhere to the National Union Manifesto, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Part in a Revolution] Reference
The inroad of Roman ideas, and especially, Deneus thinks, the fervour of converts to Christianity, introduced testamentary legacies. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
They make an inroad into Finn's country, and a battle takes place in which many warriors, among them Hnæf and a son of Finn, are killed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
So once you have that inroad, you want to give them certain authorities to do certain things, and then you check it and try to keep it within bounds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference
Then came tidings of an inroad of the Sclavs, and Erik was commissioned to suppress it with eight ships, since Frode as yet seemed inexperienced in war. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Might even have an inroad in a way that Mike Geragos might not, where he can call up somebody he knows with the department and say, "Give me the real skinny on this or that.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2003] Reference
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