front line

Example Sentences

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That’s how a country at war fields more than 2,000 defense companies and runs production cycles from outline to front line in months, not years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

In letters written to the BBC from inside a detention facility, Davies says he was captured by Russian forces after being seriously injured on the front line.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Kosova’s 80-year-old neighbor on Tychyna Avenue, Nila Molchaniuk, said her family puts up with such threats in the knowledge that things are much tougher on the front line.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Without them, says Khani, the front line would collapse.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

And Josiah—if only I had let him continue sleeping on the first day of training, perhaps he wouldn’t have gone to the front line in the first place.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah