front rank

Example Sentences

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She had to be young so you could have lots of children, she had to be Protestant, she had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

So far, Boris Johnson has not visited Wakefield, and I'm told front-rank government ministers tend to pop in briefly to gladhand the Conservative candidate, knock off an endorsement video and head back to Westminster.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2022

Had Hitler delayed by a few years, Roberts suggests, Churchill would surely have been away from front-rank politics too long to “make himself the one indispensable figure.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2018

“The front-rank Republican candidates are going to have to have some carbon mitigation proposal at some point,” Bledsoe said.

From Scientific American • Aug. 7, 2015

Rear-rank men step forward to fill the places of their file-leaders, and as the assembly sounds the front-rank men are glad to slip, unobserved, into the vacant spaces in the rear.

From At Plattsburg by French, Allen