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
Clinton held back and let them blaze the trail, they said.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2016
You've got to blaze the trail so we can follow you in.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry