front line
Example Sentences
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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
In letters written to the BBC from inside a detention facility, Davies says he was captured by Russian forces after being seriously injured on the front line.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
On the front line, young soldiers asked Kovalskiy for selfies, his children’s friends quizzed them about their father and chart-topping U.S. rapper Yeat posted his picture on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Thrust back into the front line by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, infectious disease experts have to balance informing the public about its potential risks without provoking undue fear of a Covid-scale pandemic.
From Barron's • May 13, 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
