How to Use front-runner in a Sentence

front-runner

noun

• Pickett seems to be the front-runner to be the Week 1 starter.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
• Meryl Davis Meryl Davis was the front-runner on the show's 18th season from the get-go.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
• There are a bunch of solid front-runners to take the pope seat.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 May 2025
• This set is bound to be a front-runner at the gift exchange.
  — Kelsey Fredricks, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
• Rule 5 Draft pick Matt Sauer is a front-runner for the final spot.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The Bear has been an awards season front-runner this year.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• The list is made up of 25 players who are front-runners for the Wooden Award.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
• Judge was flirting with .400 and Fried was the front-runner for the Cy Young Award, which would have been his first.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• If the front-runner is to be taken down, someone will have to do it.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• Bullard had an up and down rookie year, but looks like the front-runner to win the nickel job.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
• By the end of the festival, the movie wins the Palme and Madison is a front-runner for Best Actress.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
• The only team to win all three of their group games is a worthy front-runner.
  — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 28 June 2025
• However, the front-runner in the bidding to build the system is.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• Brody has won best actor at most awards shows and is seen as the front-runner to take the Oscar on March 2.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2025
• Flacco seems to be the front-runner for the Week 1 job with Pickett close behind him.
  — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
• Justyn Martin are the front-runners to start next season.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2025
• All along, the Dodgers were seen as front-runners, if not outright favorites, to land Ohtani.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• And, following the Giants’ upset of the Colts, there’s a new front-runner for the No. 1 pick in next spring’s draft.
  — Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• For much of the year, Rubio and Gonzalez were viewed as front-runners.
  — Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Though Wright entered as the front-runner, Mattison has had the best camp.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Aug. 2025
• Isaiah Wynn is expected to be the front-runner to start at left guard.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• As the most experienced player in the room, Daniels seemed like a front-runner to start.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
• A lot of other Democrats did as well, making her clearly the front-runner.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
• That gives us very little clarity as to who the Best New Artist front-runner is.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
• The team is a front-runner for this year’s gold medal, of which Biles already has four from previous Olympics.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 30 July 2024
• And yet, the front-runner in the Republican Party says that.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2023
• From the day that Steve Clifford stepped down and ended his second run as the Hornets’ head, Lee has been thought to be the front-runner.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 May 2024
• No decision’s been made, but a front-runner has emerged: Jack.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Andrews, a sophomore, appears to be the early front-runner to start at point guard but could be pushed by Vide.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• But Nini needs a pop and a real story line soon, because the other three front-runners are gaining on her by the week.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026