makeone'sway (third-person singular simple presentmakes one's way,present participlemaking one's way,simple past and past participlemade one's way)
- (idiomatic) To moveforward, usuallytoward adestination orgoal,physically orconceptually.
1658, Joseph Caryl,An Exposition with Practical Observations continued upon the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and twenty-one Chapters of the Book of Job...[1], page226:... to tread upon enemies, andmake our way over them, notes the compleatest victory and highest triumph ...
1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: L.M.S.R. Wick Main Line”, inRailway Magazine, page130:Coastal routes always provide difficult engineering problems, where a coast is rocky and cliff-bound, owing to the necessity for crossing all valleys and ravinesmaking their way to the sea.
2003, United States Senate,NASA: human space flight : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, April 2, 2003, Volumes 73-77[3], published2006, page 1:It is imperative that wemake our way to space and do so as quickly and as safely as possible. As tempting as it is to accelerate the process of developing ...
2013 June 18,Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, inNew York Times, retrieved21 June 2013:Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral andmade their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:On arrival at Birmingham New Street, Imake my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
to move towards a destination
