front line

Example Sentences

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Closer to the front line, 12 hours of electricity feels like a luxury.

From The Wall Street Journal

Guguyev said that the FSB called returned soldiers “lost trust” and that prisoners sent back to the front lines were given menial tasks that didn’t involve firearms, as they were no longer trusted.

From The Wall Street Journal

The pair arrived in the country just months before the Yom Kippur war in 1973, when a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria overran Israel’s front line.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This means that our troops are advancing along the entire front line, in some places more quickly, in some places more slowly, but everywhere.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Her voice trembles with anger as she explains how she found out the news that he had died on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine in 2023.

From BBC