How to Use front line in a Sentence

front line

1 of 2 noun
  • She has been working on the front lines to educate the poor.
  • These researchers are on the front line of defense against cancer.
  • The front line is the tip of the spear.
    — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Some may want to be on the front lines.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Equip managers as the front line.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • That’s the front line at the moment.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2026
  • They were used on the front lines to walk through minefields.
    — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The ones that should be made quickly and right at the front line.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But the progress along the front line has been very slow and costly.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And for health care workers on the front line, the toll is heavy.
    — NBC News, 5 May 2021
  • That's a huge if against the best front line in the country, though.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • That was a state-on-state conflict, army against army with clear front lines.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The front lines are moving fast for civilians too.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Below are his unedited words from the front line.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • To destinies that cross front lines and are never the same again.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The front line with the Houthi militia was ten miles to the south.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Now, drones are ubiquitous on the front lines.
    — Joseph Nepomuceno, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • No water at front line hand washing sink, and triple sink.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The ‘burbs have become the front line for statewide election.
    — Zachary Hansen, ajc, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Ira’s mother was still trapped on the other side of the front line.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
  • Our heroes in uniform are on the front lines of the fight against evil.
    — Gov. Kim Reynolds, Des Moines Register, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The home was near the front line of fighting in the area when it was destroyed.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This was a front line then, and it is still littered with anti-tank mines.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Fireworks will end the evening, which is billed as a salute to front line workers.
    — Wendy Fox Weber, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2021
  • Glamour reports from the front lines.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The players and coaches are on the front line of that success.
    — Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The front line is just 20 miles to the west, around Vuhledar.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The city is about six miles from the front line and border with Russia.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
  • Our officers are on the front lines every day.
    — Mercury News Editorial Board, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
  • In this section of the front line, the war remains a bloody stalemate.
    — Dalton Bennett, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022

frontline

2 of 2 adjective
  • Yet there aren’t resources available to many frontline staff members.
    — Elizabeth Métraux, STAT, 3 Jan. 2020
  • This is especially true for frontline cities and towns like Kharkiv.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Now armies across the world are temporarily putting down their guns and playing a frontline role in the war against the virus.
    — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2020
  • For a pitcher with frontline starter aspirations, the results were a mixed bag.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2021
  • Hurlburt is home to the Air Force’s first frontline Osprey squadron.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 14 June 2012
  • Many turned homes into offices and some frontline workers began risking their lives for a paycheck.
    — David Miller, ABC News, 3 May 2022
  • China says more than 1,700 frontline medics have been infected, and six have died.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020
  • And to make the effort pay off, top brass interact constantly with their frontline colleagues.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Only 2,000 frontline health care workers have so far been tested.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The creation of the signal was in response to feedback from frontline service and support workers.
    — Nadia Ebrahim, refinery29.com, 22 Apr. 2020
  • These days, the fastest-growing jobs in the country are frontline service work—nursing, home health care, retail, and food service.
    — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 21 Dec. 2017
  • But the Mets are not the only hurdle to the Yankees acquiring a frontline starter.
    — Kristie Ackert, courant.com, 29 July 2019
  • Brian Winchester had heard about the need, the relief a home on wheels could provide to frontline workers.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The only thing that mattered from that game was Dylan Bundy looking like a bona fide frontline major league starter.
    — baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The Diamondbacks are hoping Bumgarner can be a frontline starter both on and off the field.
    — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Next could come frontline essential workers and people 75 and older, in Phase 1b.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The Phillies lack frontline arms outside of Aaron Nola and need rotation help to keep moving forward.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2018
  • In India, a sharp Covid-19 surge has been worsened by a two-week-long doctor's strike which could lead to a frontline response shortage.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
  • That was when Sudanese boys were being kidnapped for use as frontline troops in battle zones or to walk through mine fields, according to the foundation’s website.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The early evidence seems to be that frontline Democrats are staying with the Democratic Party right now.
    — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2019
  • That cost him the entire season and would be his final appearance with the Nets, who had signed him to a three-year, $36 million deal to become their frontline point guard.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
  • The ship’s 58-year-old captain has been away from his home in the frontline city of Kherson during the entirety of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The door closes on the drama and the opaque world of the frontline GPS operator is again hidden from view and consideration.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2019
  • One of four college assistants to get a frontline role on Minter’s defensive staff, Bower will have an opportunity to work with what could be a very young edge rusher group.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • During the summer of 1941, Curzio Malaparte was the only frontline war correspondent in the whole of Russia.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The program, which began on Friday, adds 200 frontline officers to the night shift over the summer, CTV reported.
    — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, 23 July 2018
  • For the Royals, the loss of a frontline starter for perhaps as long as two months struck hard as the team prepared to begin a 10-game home stand against Detroit, Cleveland and Houston.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 29 May 2017
  • In more recent years, during Gavin Newsom’s governorship, the state’s housing shortage became a frontline political issue.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As companies scale, layers of management pile up and information silos begin to form, driving decision-makers further from frontline reality.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Empowering workers, especially frontline employees, with uncomplicated access to key resources has many benefits.
    — Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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