the home front
noun
: the people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country
During the war we had to keep up morale on the home front.
Examples of the home front in a Sentence
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Read the full Sagittarius Daily Horoscope Capricorn (December 21 - January 19)
Shake ups on the home front?
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USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Read the full Leo Daily Horoscope Virgo (August 23 - September 22)
Take the initiative on the home front.
—USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
Amid the national attention and appearances on Fox News and other right-wing media, Youngkin wobbled on the home front.
—Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Of course, rumors weren’t just a problem on the home front.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
On the home front, things are equally unsettled: Our hero comes home one day to find his mother has inexplicably vacated the premises for a two-week motel stay, leaving behind a cryptic note and a fortnight’s worth of precooked dinners.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
Read the full Capricorn Daily Horoscope Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)
Interruptions on the home front can invade your privacy.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
As Lincoln saw matters, their necessary absence from the home front now threatened national productivity—of civilian goods as well as war materiel.
—Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
Read the full Sagittarius Daily Horoscope Capricorn (December 21 - January 19)
Being quick to condemn can stir up confrontation on the home front.
—USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Read the full Leo Daily Horoscope Virgo (August 23 - September 22)
Take the initiative on the home front.
—USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
Amid the national attention and appearances on Fox News and other right-wing media, Youngkin wobbled on the home front.
—Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Of course, rumors weren’t just a problem on the home front.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
On the home front, things are equally unsettled: Our hero comes home one day to find his mother has inexplicably vacated the premises for a two-week motel stay, leaving behind a cryptic note and a fortnight’s worth of precooked dinners.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
Read the full Capricorn Daily Horoscope Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)
Interruptions on the home front can invade your privacy.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
As Lincoln saw matters, their necessary absence from the home front now threatened national productivity—of civilian goods as well as war materiel.
—Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
Read the full Sagittarius Daily Horoscope Capricorn (December 21 - January 19)
Being quick to condemn can stir up confrontation on the home front.
—USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
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