front line
Example Sentences
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Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Friday that the city, which is far from the front line of fighting between soldiers, was in a "very dramatic situation" and should now be on a war footing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Vo said his decades on the front line in law enforcement taught him “what hard working families actually deal with.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Obviously, there are many individuals who work for the Russian state who know that the people they recruit to go to the front line are victims of trafficking," Callamard said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine—Every few weeks, Svitlana Dvornikova leaves her home near the front line in Ukraine and travels to a rented luxury villa on the Mediterranean coast of France or Spain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
In honor of the birthday of the Marines, the Second and Third Raider Battalions, who had been in the heaviest fighting, were moved off the front line and allowed to rest for two weeks.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
