How to Use front burner in a Sentence

front burner

noun
  • None is quite ready to move from the back burner to the front burner.
    — Dave Itzkoff, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • And then came rheumatoid arthritis, which took her off the front burner for years.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • These days, thanks to a decades-long decline in sperm counts, such concerns have moved to the front burner.
    — Judith Finlayson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Perhaps this could move to the front burner for Poles in the late spring or summer.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • On the front burner, for now, however, is the Clark shooting.
    — NBC News, 7 Apr. 2018
  • But losses suffered this year will keep this topic on the front burner of every sports franchise.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Since then, his dispute with the Lions over money has become front burner.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Smoke from the front burners has farther to travel, and a lot of it drifts sideways into the kitchen before the hood can catch it.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 3 June 2026
  • Reversing the anti-worker trends of the postwar years must be on Biden’s front burner.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Russia rarely receded from the front burner throughout the summit.
    — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Still, Biden's advisers have strategically mapped out ways to keep the issue on the front burner.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Whitmer's agreement to take road funding off the front burner complicates other aspects of her budget plan.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
  • It was nestled among condiments on the counter and his fingertips got barely past the front burner, where an empty frying pan waited to be greased.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Communications get a lot easier, computers work again and projects move to the front burner.
    — SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
  • History is taking a place on the front burner of the national conversation.
    — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • But for now there’s not even room for it on the front burner as lawmakers, just back from a five-week summer recess, face a series of more immediate tasks.
    — Erica Werner, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The summer camps and the Pollinator Palooza are just two of the programs currently on the front burner.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 7 June 2022
  • But in recent days there’s been a steady flow of news coming out of the kingdom that would suggest the IPO is once again on the front burner.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
  • But the administration shows little sign of pushing foreign policy off the front burner.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Since then, the issue has remained on the world’s front burner, with the direct negotiations begun last fall marking a new era of diplomatic progress.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2014
  • Lawsuits claiming misbehavior by Google and Facebook promise to keep this topic on the front burner.
    — Editorial Board New York Times, Star Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Throughout his losing campaign, Trump put gun rights on the front burner, often using the divisive issue in an attempt to excite voters.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The challenges after that month of media exposure, then Congress has moved on to now dealing with tax policy and other issues, and this is kind of gone off the front burner.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Oct. 2018
  • The pandemic put schools squarely on the front burner this election cycle, both with the upheavals caused by closures and the scrutiny that virtual learning brought to classrooms.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • This important issue has been on Judicial Watch's front burner for a while now, as evidenced by the lawsuits filed and resolved with several states.
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Later this morning, Luna moves into playful Leo and makes a supportive angle to Mercury, urging us to put fun on the front burner.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Vanessa Guillén last year, a death that put the risks to women in uniform on the front burner of policy-making at the Pentagon and in Congress.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2021
  • The conservative American bishops are largely out of step with Francis and his agenda of putting climate change, migrants and poverty on the church’s front burner.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 14 June 2021
  • Fire investigators determined one of the occupants of the apartment was cooking french fries on the stove when the grease spilled out of the skillet and onto the front burner, Reith said.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The relationship between the two men has hit rocky terrain at a time when the administration has put its push for tax reform on the front burner -- a high-profile gambit in which Cohn is playing a central role.
    — Jeremy Diamond, Sara Murray and Kaitlan Collins, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017

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