How to Use front line in a Sentence

front line

1 of 2 noun

• She has been working on the front lines to educate the poor.
• These researchers are on the front line of defense against cancer.
• The front line is just 20 miles to the west, around Vuhledar.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Listen: Why is AZ at the front line of the culture wars?
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
• Fifty years ago, Leonard Cohen came to Israel to sing on the front lines.
  — Kosha Dillz, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• That was a state-on-state conflict, army against army with clear front lines.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Ukrainian soldiers sit in a trench along the front line near Bakhmut on March 26.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
• News Coastal Alaska is on the front lines of climate change.
  — Theo Greenly, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• The numbers also point to a lack of rapid medical care on the front line.
  — Helene Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• Most kept a reasonable distance, but the storks pressed up to the front line in search of easy prey.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
• Outside, the gang leader was waiting to escort us to the front line.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Grossi has long called for a protection zone to be set up around the plant, which is very near the front line of the war.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• The best leaders of homelessness programs serve on both the front lines and the front pages.
  — Stephen Eide, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• Israel is on the front lines, but all of the democratic world is a target.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023
• As the culture wars rage, books increasingly are on the front line.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
• Here is a war with a clear front line with a clear moral imperative.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Well, border patrol agents are on the front line of this crisis.
  — CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Journalists, too, have found themselves on the front lines.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
• On the front line, some Ukrainian soldiers are trained to play a similar role.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• Their neighbors are already hundreds of miles east in trenches on the front lines.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Despite the bloody fighting, the front line has remained largely static over the past year.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• But, in the near term, both the shortfalls on Ukraine’s front lines and divisions in Washington may cement the fate of the war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• To do that, Tapestry let people closer to the front lines at the brand level call more shots.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• Dnipro, a large city in central Ukraine, is nowhere near the front lines and yet the conflict is felt here on a daily basis.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• The painter Umberto Boccioni and the poet Wilfred Owen, on the other side of the front lines, would also not live to see the armistice.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Do the Rockets have holes both at point guard and defensively on their front line?
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• Even the pen, used everywhere from post offices to combat front lines, has not changed.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2023
• Another thre were under a cooler at the front line deli counter.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• But Joan continued to keep an eye out for Bozell and identified two more instances of him on the front lines of the siege.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2023
• Yet, her interest lies in the front lines, where women are not allowed.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023

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frontline

2 of 2 adjective

• Now armies across the world are temporarily putting down their guns and playing a frontline role in the war against the virus.
  — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2020
• But the Mets are not the only hurdle to the Yankees acquiring a frontline starter.
  — Kristie Ackert, courant.com, 29 July 2019
• The ship’s 58-year-old captain has been away from his home in the frontline city of Kherson during the entirety of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
• Rooms have been turned over to host frontline workers and at least $2 million has been raised to help displaced staff members.
  — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2020
• China says more than 1,700 frontline medics have been infected, and six have died.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
• The Diamondbacks are hoping Bumgarner can be a frontline starter both on and off the field.
  — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 12 Feb. 2020
• Brian Winchester had heard about the need, the relief a home on wheels could provide to frontline workers.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2020
• In India, a sharp Covid-19 surge has been worsened by a two-week-long doctor's strike which could lead to a frontline response shortage.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
• For a pitcher with frontline starter aspirations, the results were a mixed bag.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2021
• Yet there aren’t resources available to many frontline staff members.
  — Elizabeth Métraux, STAT, 3 Jan. 2020
• The creation of the signal was in response to feedback from frontline service and support workers.
  — Nadia Ebrahim, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• Right one, right now The main purpose of cotton masks is to save surgical masks and N95 masks for frontline healthcare and other workers.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 26 May 2020
• During the summer of 1941, Curzio Malaparte was the only frontline war correspondent in the whole of Russia.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Only 2,000 frontline health care workers have so far been tested.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
• The early evidence seems to be that frontline Democrats are staying with the Democratic Party right now.
  — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2019
• Next could come frontline essential workers and people 75 and older, in Phase 1b.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• To be clear: There is no concern over the frontline health-care workers, scientists, and experts who do heroic work, often at great risk to themselves.
  — Marco Rubio, National Review, 1 Apr. 2020
• Many turned homes into offices and some frontline workers began risking their lives for a paycheck.
  — David Miller, ABC News, 3 May 2022
• How Stanford’s vaccine algorithm caused a major controversy and left frontline workers at the back of the line.
  — Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• But many women in the workforce — especially frontline workers — have not been.
  — Madeline Janis, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• The policy will include everyone from frontline retail workers to the truck drivers that deliver goods to the stores.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2022
• India’s second coronavirus wave is killing thousands of people a day, and the country’s frontline medical workers have shared in the cost.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2021
• The painting shows an African American nurse with a steely and courageous gaze that Osborne says symbolizes the courage of frontline hospital workers.
  — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 25 Apr. 2020
• Phase 1 would include frontline workers and first responders, as well as those at higher risk for severe symptoms.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2020
• Landeza is among a group of often unseen frontline workers in Oakland who respond to the city’s surging gun violence.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2022
• To be clear, Kanter is no woolly academic or frontline activist.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
• The nation’s frontline medical workers were running on fumes even before the arrival of Omicron.
  — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2022
• Knowingwho is or isn't immune to the virus is crucial for frontline workers and, in the long run, could allow people to return to work and re-establish some normalcy.
  — Amanda Morris, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2020
• Our hospitals were not built for surges of this scale, so frontline caregivers will be making difficult decisions about who receives care and who doesn’t.
  — Tristan Harris, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• Farmers are frontline defense against bird flu The key problem with bird flu is that the highly contagious virus is spread easily by wild birds through their droppings and nasal discharges.
  — Josh Funk, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024