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Example sentences for "make progress"

  • The German commander played a clever trick on the British when their First Army Corps and their Indian Division attempted to make progress in the triangle to the west of La Bassée.

  • North of the Ancre the British continued to make progress, occupying without difficulty a German trench some 600 yards long and taking a good number of prisoners.

  • In Champagne the French continued to make progress, capturing important points in Moronvilliers Wood.

  • The French continued to make progress, slowly but firmly pressing the Germans back from many points, and gaining more ground than they lost through counterattacks.

  • South of Lens the British continued to make progress, capturing a good portion of the German trench system in this area and taking a number of prisoners.

  • We cannot do all we want to in times like these--we have to choose the things that will contribute most to defense--but we must continue to make progress if we are to be a strong nation in the years ahead.

  • Each successive step creating machinery for the adjustment of labor difficulties must be taken with caution, but we should endeavor to make progress in this direction.

  • The new M-X missile program to enhance our land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force continues to make progress.

  • To gain ground, to make progress; to advance in any undertaking; to prevail; to acquire strength or extent.

  • Move, pass, proceed, advance, make progress, go on.

  • Your songs have pronounced your name clearly and plainly; they also disclose what you think and what you are; that you love music, and wish to make progress; so thus perhaps I know you better than if we had frequently met.

  • In spite of the most gallant efforts the Brigade was unable to make progress, and eventually fell back with the left wing of the Rangers at about 8.

  • With this excellent stiffening the Battalion soon began to make progress, and rapidly took--and held--the lead in numbers in the 1st London Brigade.

  • The German offensive on the Somme front was now showing signs of weakening, though owing to the enormous losses incurred by our divisions in personnel and material the enemy was still able to make progress.

  • Their left company was unable to make progress, and by 8.

  • The troops on their right flanks were, however, unable to make progress, and about 8 P.

  • In the attack on the 15th the Indian Corps, owing to the strength of the enemy's defences in the neighbourhood of Richebourg l'Avoue, again failed to make progress.

  • The object of the present chapter is to kindle within you a desire to make progress in every thing you do--to go on, as the Scripture expresses it, to perfection.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    make answer; make bread; make conscience; make firm; make free; make friends; make haste; make him; make inquiry; make intercession; make known; make light; make mention; make music; make report; make resistance; make slaves; make their; make this; make treaties; make trial; make use; make your; makes them; musical composition; reads thus