front line
Example Sentences
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He died last year on the front lines.
From BBC
Ukrainian servicemen this winter said that Russia was scaling up their use and that the devices would have a significant impact on the front lines if Ukraine couldn’t counter them.
Around 500 kilometres south of Moscow, Voronezh -- a city of one million people -- is closer to the front line in eastern Ukraine than to the Russian capital.
From Barron's
In Ukraine the front line is largely frozen, but Hedgehog envisioned a battlefield where tanks and troops still have some ability to move.
“It always comes down to the soldier on the front lines,” he says.
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