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
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
“We blaze the trail, we do the hard work, and then we’re out.”
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2014
Both dreamed of the golden West; so Bishey had gone to blaze the trail, and "Miss Em'ly" was to follow.
From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt
