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

During the summer months, the wildflowers blaze the trail in an array of colors.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

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 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