How to Use leading edge in a Sentence

leading edge

noun
  • Let the grinder come up to speed and put the wheel’s leading edge against the work.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The leading edge of the hood is nearly five feet from the ground.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Curved windows will be placed in the leading edge of the wing, in the ceiling and parts of the floor.
    Hall Hibbard, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
  • This keeps the leading edge of the work from dropping in the table hole.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Just look at Michigan, the leading edge of this new surge.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Her case was the leading edge of a moment that seemed to burst out of nowhere all at once.
    New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Oregon Zoo has been on the leading edge of those efforts.
    oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The leading edge shape of the B-21 is simpler than the B-2A’s sawtooth trailing edge.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2021
  • The leading edge of the front moves through the UK by Saturday with rain showers.
    Gene Norman and Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 31 July 2020
  • Maybe, but the investors that play the leading edge, but riskier game, stand to make the windfalls.
    Veena Jetti, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The player's feet must stay behind the leading edge of the board during each throw.
    Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • As a team, ECR has been on the leading edge in recent years of trying to find the series’ next young star.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2020
  • Many vehicles are more than 40 inches tall at the leading edge of the hood.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • By Tuesday evening, the leading edge of the system and snow will move into the Great Lakes region.
    Adam Klotz, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2020
  • But the leading edge of a new low pressure trough will begin to show on Wednesday.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • At the leading edge of this trend, the lines between a hotel and apartment are blurring.
    Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The steel strip on the leading edge of the blade helps prolong the shovel’s life—we’ve had a Poly Combo in use for five seasons now.
    Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But those contracts are just the leading edge of what is shaping up to be a big new defense buildup.
    John Ismay, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Marketers love new trends and to be on the leading edge of new technologies and platforms.
    Krista Neher, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • By the time the bulk of the crowd reached the building, its leading edge had metastasized into an angry mob.
    New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
  • Those winds were detected by the Doppler radar in Sterling, Va.) and shown by the patch of orange colors along the leading edge of the bow.
    Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • The book’s use of present tense rushes us along on the leading edge of her experience.
    Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The windshield header has a one-inch channel to accept the top's leading edge.
    Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Dumbo’s marketing was once at the leading edge — but that was more than a decade ago.
    Curbed, 28 July 2022
  • Our use of virtual visits has been on the leading edge.
    Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Through Tonight: High clouds are streaming into the area tonight on the leading edge of Hurricane Ian’s cloud field.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • On the leading edge of this spring-like air, however, there was a snowy mess yesterday in the Midwest.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2021
  • What worries scientists is that leading edge of the huge glacier is breaking apart in many places.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Touch leading edge of peel to Baking Steel or pizza stone, about 1 inch from back edge, with peel at a slight incline.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Parts of the state will get clipped by snow will develop on the leading edge of an Arctic front that will move through the region on Friday.
    Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021

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