If the government is serious about making inroads into the backlog of asylum applications, they should allocate additional funding.

I think we have made an inroad today.

We've made great inroads into solving the problem, but our resources dwindle and the end is not in sight.

The army made inroads into the neighboring country.

She could never find the motivation to make significant inroads into the work piling up in her in-tray.

Socialism is making inroads with the American youth.

Chinese phone companies are beginning to make serious inroads into the US market.