How to Use home front in a Sentence

home front

noun
  • Though the home fronts Cherry Street and the garage faces Olive Street, the rear of the home sits near the back of the garage.
    Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
  • In this case to defend the home front at the start of the second World War.
    Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The death of earmarks that, for so many years, fueled projects on the home front.
    Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The companies also found ways to help on the home front.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • This was the sonic equivalent of that new type of wartime movie, the home front film.
    Christian Blauvelt, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The soccer frenzy has allowed Putin to get things done on the home front.
    Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 1 July 2018
  • Things have been good on the home front, too, where Busch is learning at long last to be a father of two.
    Dave Skretta, Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2022
  • Those not in uniform were asked to make sacrifices here on the home front.
    Steve Bowersox, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Still, these last two months the forum seems to be littered with petty news from the home front.
    Rachel Levin, SFChronicle.com, 3 June 2020
  • So, yes: A holistic view of the home front did bring clarity.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Rather, that struggle continues to play out on the home front as well.
    Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This was a home front, in other words, that was quite used to images of flag-raisings.
    Matthew Pressman, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Things are getting shaken up on your home front at the moment, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • On the home front, Rojas said the move to the United States from Mexico was a complete 180.
    Angel Franco, Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The war metaphor also shows the need for everyone to mobilize and do their part on the home front.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The Bay Area’s main contribution to the home front was shipyards.
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The battle, for Jewell, (who died in 2007, from various health crises) was on the home front.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Away from the home front, the NHC is keeping up with two tropical waves with strong chances of becoming the next storms of the year.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • And on the home front, his partner of seven years, Brooke Delaney, is pregnant with their first child.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
  • The urge to find something to liven up the home front is all too understandable these days.
    Vogue, 29 May 2021
  • To be fair, Gallup did pick out one bright spot on the home front: younger men are doing more childcare than their forebears.
    Fortune, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Willow Run — the bomber plant, airfield and village — were key components of the home front.
    Greg Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Soon, though, the euphemisms fall away, heads are bashed and Tony himself is taking a battering on the home front.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Young men and women left home to serve in the military while those on the home front pulled together to help in the war effort.
    courant.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Rubbing together in war duties, whether on the front line or on the home front, the strict boundaries of the British class system became frayed.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020
  • These were the battles Black soldiers and their families fought on the home front even when bullets weren’t flying.
    Jemar Tisby, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
  • And on the home front, Flowers’ partner is about to give birth to their twins, while Virgil is hinting at trying a new career.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Because of the military service that happens here, the home front command is run by a lot of women.
    Claire Suddath, Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • On the home front, Truman’s dream of achieving universal health care languished as well.
    Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Now back on an island that looks like a bomb has hit, these old soldiers will face another battle, this time on the home front.
    David Gonzalez, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017

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