front line

Example Sentences

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With cell networks largely down on the front lines, it quickly became a crucial technology ensuring internet access for civilians and troops.

From The Wall Street Journal

Russian war bloggers warned the implications could go beyond drones, as the Russian military uses Starlink to provide the front line with internet.

From BBC

Progress, as he understood it, meant refusing to be cowed by fear—a resolve he said he first witnessed among Jamaican anticolonial activists, and later on the front lines of the civil-rights movement.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Dayna Frank, chief executive of the Minneapolis venue First Avenue and an activist with ICE Out, local music communities should be on the front lines for organizing and offering relief.

From Los Angeles Times

After the invasion, he said he saw a television ad for a job cooking for the army near the front line.

From Barron's