front line
Example Sentences
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A former soldier in Ukraine said geospatial intelligence was sometimes so stale by the time it reached the units at the front line, soldiers couldn’t act on it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Malta is also on the front line of climate change and at risk of desertification and drought, but neither main party made the issue its priority.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
The critical route is used by the Russian military to supply their forces on the front line and in Crimea.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
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
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
