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

On Skybolt rested Britain’s hopes of remaining a front-rank nuclear power.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2019

With more than 200 works, and a core group of 133 drawings by the beyond-famous artist — the largest number ever assembled — on loan from some 50 front-rank collections, it’s a curatorial coup.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

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