fronting

Example Sentences

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Performed second-to-last, her powerful performance - essentially Lady Gaga fronting the nu metal band Evansecence - proved tantalising enough to take third place.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

I’m fronting the cost and they’ve agreed to reimburse me via rent credits.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

At an estimated cost of $3.8 billion, it will replace the rusting, abandoned hulk that sits at the east end of East Capitol Street, fronting the Anacostia River.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Hines might disagree, as she said she’s the one who has been fronting the money to cover Rourke’s move out of the Beverly Grove house and into a hotel and subsequently into a Koreatown apartment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

Magazines, brought from Earth on the silver rocket a month before, fluttered, untouched, burning brown, on wire racks fronting the silent drugstores.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury