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front line

noun as in battlefield

noun as in firing line

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When [lawmakers] looked at it holistically, did they want to take away equipment and technology from front-line security?

Saudi Arabia has bought scores of Eurofighter Typhoons from Britain, the front line equipment of many European powers.

As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.

As we get closer to the front line, we saw bombs and artillery shells had flattened apartment buildings and shops.

The plane crashed practically on the front line, you need to understand that.

By the time we had passed along the whole of the French second line and part of their front line trenches, I had had about enough.

On my way back to the beach I saw the Plymouth Battalion as it marched in from the front line.

Just at this moment they are shelling our usual front line billets vigorously.

There was no room for them in the front line trenches and communication trenches to the front had not yet been dug.

The Second and Ninth Corps were in the town, the front line was in the streets and the rear line along the bank of the river.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to front line, such as: arena, battleground, armageddon, field, front, and salient.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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