How to Use front line in a Sentence

front line

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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