front line

Example Sentences

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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

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

Thrust back into the front line by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, infectious disease experts have to balance informing the public about its potential risks without provoking undue fear of a Covid-scale pandemic.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Packaging is no longer the back end of the semiconductor business but a front line.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

At the other end, back at the main command post and away from the front line, at least one or two other Navajos would be receiving the messages and doing just what we did.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac