make one's way
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To move forward, usually toward a destination or goal, physically or conceptually.
Example Sentences
- "... to tread upon enemies, and make our way over them, notes the compleatest victory and highest triumph ..."
- "Coastal routes always provide difficult engineering problems, where a coast is rocky and cliff-bound, owing to the necessity for crossing all valleys and ravines making their way to the sea."
- "I'm telling you, I will not rest till I lay down my head, hey / In the house of stone and light / I'll make my way, O gonna be such a beautiful day / In the house of stone and light / In the house of stone and light"
- "It is imperative that we make our way to space and do so as quickly and as safely as possible. As tempting as it is to accelerate the process of developing ..."
- "Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw."
- "On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
insinuate
worm one's way