blaze the trail
Example Sentences
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“I blaze the trail for the rest to walk in,” Alva declared, as quoted in The Washington Post’s review of Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe’s book about the Vanderbilts.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025
Webber said rather than safeguard a small shark fishing industry, the U.S. should blaze the trail to protect the slow-growing, long-living fish.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Other migrants in the party told agents foot guides, the smugglers hired to blaze the trail through the desert, carried the child from Sasabe, on the Mexican side, to a load-up spot in the U.S.
From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2021
And 120 years after stalwart workers bore through all that schist to blaze the trail?
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021
You can blaze the trail by breaking or bending small branches on trees and bushes, or by small strips torn from your handkerchief and tied conspicuously on twigs.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Beard, Lina
