front line
Example Sentences
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"There are a lot of veterans who already served their country," he says, "and they literally say that being in the port is more scary than being on the front line."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The plant -- which is close to the front line of the war -- has repeatedly suffered power cuts, with emergency diesel generators providing power for crucial cooling functions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
This has also been an incredible front line of the technological vanguard for how war is going to be fought in the future.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to students who will arrive quoting it chapter and verse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Was it like establishing a front line in a war?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
