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.
• In this section of the front line, the war remains a bloody stalemate.
  — Dalton Bennett, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
• The largest such reserve is in the central part of the country, far from current front lines.
  — Siobhán O’Grady, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
• Her tale isn’t of war but of being on the front line of the Civil Rights era.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 25 July 2022
• As the front line moves closer, attacks on the city intensify.
  — Francesca Ebel, ajc, 3 July 2022
• The soldiers who carried Maksym to the aid station piled back in their truck to drive the roughly two miles back to the front line.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• The front line against the Russians lies more than 20 miles east of Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2022
• As the war continues along a 620-mile front line, Ukraine has faced mounting Russian offensives.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
• Classical music has been on the front lines in a year marked by division and distraction, protest and intolerance, war and suffering.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
• Sometimes plans change — the front line of the war is constantly shifting, and Ferguson always has a backup plan to ensure his team stays out of danger.
  — Crude Conversations, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
• Corporate changes to policies mean nothing if those who are on the front line of the organization don’t mirror the organization’s new stance.
  — Rebecca Edwards, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• The rising figures reflect how the front line has shifted since Ukraine pushed Russian forces away from its capital, Kyiv, early in the war.
  — Erika Solomon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
• There, Russia has made little progress, taking only one village south of Bakhmut in two weeks of fighting the length of the front line, which stretches for hundreds of miles.
  — New York Times, 17 July 2022
• In his battalion alone, Dmytruk said, the number of killed and injured has fallen dramatically compared with when his soldiers moved to this part of the front line three months ago.
  — Karoun Demirjian, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
• Russian troops are slowly advancing in several critical sectors along the 800-mile front line of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• The front line is just 20 miles to the west, around Vuhledar.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• They were used on the front lines to walk through minefields.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
• Listen: Why is AZ at the front line of the culture wars?
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
• The players and coaches are on the front line of that success.
  — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
• Fifty years ago, Leonard Cohen came to Israel to sing on the front lines.
  — Kosha Dillz, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• The level of risk for deminers varies with the seasons and the distance from the front line.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
• 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
• To counter Ukraine’s attack, Russia will need to pull some troops from the front line in Ukraine.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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

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frontline

2 of 2 adjective

• That was the pitch that made him a frontline starter many nights.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 12 June 2018
• Hurlburt is home to the Air Force’s first frontline Osprey squadron.
  — David Axe, WIRED, 14 June 2012
• 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
• The only thing that mattered from that game was Dylan Bundy looking like a bona fide frontline major league starter.
  — baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• These days, the fastest-growing jobs in the country are frontline service work—nursing, home health care, retail, and food service.
  — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
• 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
• For the Royals, the loss of a frontline starter for perhaps as long as two months struck hard as the team prepared to begin a 10-game home stand against Detroit, Cleveland and Houston.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 29 May 2017
• The Phillies lack frontline arms outside of Aaron Nola and need rotation help to keep moving forward.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2018
• That cost him the entire season and would be his final appearance with the Nets, who had signed him to a three-year, $36 million deal to become their frontline point guard.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
• 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
• And to make the effort pay off, top brass interact constantly with their frontline colleagues.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2018
• The door closes on the drama and the opaque world of the frontline GPS operator is again hidden from view and consideration.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
• The program, which began on Friday, adds 200 frontline officers to the night shift over the summer, CTV reported.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 23 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• According to a McKinsey study, nearly half of frontline retail workers and 63% of retail managers consider leaving their jobs within three to six months of being hired.
  — Melody Brue, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024