How to Use up-front in a Sentence

up-front

1 of 2 adjective

• Those helping Sandu would pay him an up-front fee to take part in the scheme.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
• The iconic jacket costs a lot up-front, but it can be repaired by the brand for life.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• To be sure, there are significant up-front costs to the IIPT approach.
  — Antje M. Barreveld, STAT, 16 May 2024
• Most people never make back the thousands of dollars of up-front fees.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• In addition to the hefty up-front price tag, there is a monthly subscription fee to use the kit with an app.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
• This year, the best Memorial Day deals take the form of up-front discounts and lowered finance rates.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
• Dining with a large group: When dining with a large group of friends or colleagues, deciding how the bill will be split up-front is best.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Aug. 2023
• That means farmers, and their business partners, must cover up-front costs.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• There are also options like Epson’s EcoTank series that have a larger up-front cost but the ink can cost as little as $5 per year.
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
• The city of Mobile would have to take on about $1.3-1.6 million in up-front capital costs if any territory were to be annexed, the study notes.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• Many more will go to consumers able to afford the still considerable up-front costs of decarbonizing their homes and cars.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• The statement, instead, conflated the $350 million that the team has asked to provide up-front to build the $1 billion ballpark with the amount of money the tax would collect to the benefit of the team over those four decades.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Woods said he's still floored by the Ohtani-Dodgers deal and couldn't imagine ever advising a client to take so little up-front compensation.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The company is also up-front about some of the limitations of the technology.
  — John Werner, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Crianza may be the youngest designation of Rioja, but its youth is its strength for this pairing, the juicy and up-front flavors coming at the meal’s spice head-on.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
• But that inflow of up-front cash won’t reach Hadley, whose reimbursements come through the criminal justice system.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
• The Clippers were up-front with Westbrook before his signing in communicating that his role could change.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• In exchange, Apple would provide the lab in Senegal with the up-front funding needed to carry out research and clinical trials.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• For these events, the company or person can choose to rent the truck without flowers; rent the truck with flowers that can be sold to attendees; or rent the truck and pay for the flowers up-front to be given out to attendees for free.
  — Cheyenne Devon,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 18 July 2024
• Asset recovery scams are also known as advance fee fraud because the scam artist is charging an up-front fee for something that will never happen.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Amazon has committed to pay an up-front $5 million fee for each data center to offset the costs to the community of enabling its expansion.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• But hearing the character of their voices up-front is still bound to come as a revelation — maybe even to themselves, from the sound of it — after a couple of decades of complementarity.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• Meta offers generated text options for advertisers, and LinkedIn offers them for users, but both require some up-front cues from users.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Doing this also gives them the ability to tell you up-front if something necessitates a separate follow-up.
  — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 3 Apr. 2024
• For example, Mayadev said, if a group used the money to buy a mobile clinic that could travel into rural areas to provide pregnant women with health care, that could get the ball rolling on a project that faces a large amount of up-front cost.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
• Railroads and other heavy industries required significant up-front capital—more than could be provided by small groups, even when the groups were very wealthy.
  — Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024
• Would the company bring down the high up-front costs that had stymied other developers looking to add to the Imperial Valley’s aging fleet of geothermal power plants?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Their popularity is soaring across the U.S. and in Oregon as the federal and state governments roll out generous tax breaks and up-front rebates to make heat pumps more affordable – or even free.
  — oregonlive, 29 May 2023
• Despite high up-front costs for induction ranges, some chefs who have made the switch love them, citing both their superior performance and better labor conditions (the kitchen doesn’t heat up as much, and there are fewer burns).
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Partnerships will require more of a commitment and less up-front money than a traditional overall deal but offer greater potential for rewards down the line.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023

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up front

2 of 2 adverb

• Pop Rocks up front, with a mild hint of Tums on the finish.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• But the trade-off was that Brown gets a lot of it up front (52.6 percent).
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• The game is going to be won up front one way or the other.
  — Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
• The Colts’ starters up front need the reserves to raise their level of play.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
• There’s also the effect of the clean air (and) staying up front.
  — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2022
• And the center also asked for $7,000 up front, the full amount of the Covens’ deductible.
  — Madison Muller, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2022
• The people sitting in the last row were just as hungry and thirsty as the fans up front.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Be sure to ask about the loan’s structure up front, Alexander says.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 5 Oct. 2023
• With the i3, BMW put it up front, lighter and more sustainable.
  — Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 8 July 2024
• Robert Taylor gets the nod up front with Messi and Suarez.
  — Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Rising on the keeper, good blocking up front, as was the case most of the night, Utah down a point.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• Adults will fit comfortably up front or in the back seat.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Nov. 2022
• Second-year coach Bryan Williams has the Griffins playing strong up front on both sides of the ball.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• The downside to the Colts offense Wednesday came up front.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2022
• Some tears were shed by fans up front by the barricade.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2023
• Unlike the Polestar 2, the 4 has a real set of cupholders and tons of storage space up front.
  — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• There is a cooler full of replacements up front in the cab.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Onboard, there are two chairs up front and bench seating for six at the back.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2022
• In order to improve upon last year, the rest of the team needs to close the gap to the Papas brothers up front.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• And Cox noted that the Cats are trying to solve their issues up front with a new-look line.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2022
• That's the simplest way to avoid military conflict, is to be clear and firm up front.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2022
• The suspension consists of struts up front and a live axle fixed by four trailing links in the rear.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
• Mansfield and her boyfriend were crammed up front with him so that her three young children could sleep in back.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
• The goal to start this season has to be to create a clear picture up front for rookie Caleb Williams.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
• If Robertson has not signed a contract by the start of the season, an extra spot up front would open.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
• So, what should fans expect from Auburn’s new anchor up front?
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2022
• Rounding things out is a staggered set of wheels, 20 inches up front, 21 inches in the back.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
• Ritchie nearly scored up front, but his shot trickled back for Barrett Hayton to stuff it in for the fifth goal at 7:16 in the third.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
• The front and rear crash structures are cut away to be replaced by subframes that hold the engine (up front) and transaxle gearbox (at the rear).
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2024
• There’s still a big bash plate up front, and the XP Kinetic comes with a winch as standard equipment.
  — Harvey Briggs, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024