How to Use front-page in a Sentence

front-page

1 of 2 adjective
  • What was your first front-page story?
    — D.l. Davis, jsonline.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But in gaming, changelogs are front-page news.
    — Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • His commentary needs to be a front-page story.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • The double-homicide made front-page headlines for months.
    — Tanya Babbar, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
  • That two-day stay included a picnic where hot dogs were served, which made for front-page news.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • LaRavia knows his front-page moment can be fleeting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That’s a front-page talent strategy.
    — Shelley Zalis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Missing Black women are rarely front-page news; sadly, many of us don’t even know their names.
    — Natalie Wilson, Essence, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Over the past few months, stablecoins have moved from industry pilot to front-page news.
    — Anna Strebl, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But the scandal was not front-page news, nor did most of the public comprehend the scope of the issue.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • For a topic that's been front-page news for weeks, the debt ceiling sure seems to mystify a lot of people.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 28 May 2023
  • Robin became an artist with a one-woman show at a downtown gallery and the front-page article went on the fridge, too.
    — Michael Weissenstein, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
  • And many of his gambling activities that were front-page news decades ago are now basically legal.
    — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Loren’s objections made front-page news in Israel, and Geller assumed he was finished.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Also, the two who work for newspapers are more concerned with front-page placement in print than page views or social media plans, which is just adorable.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Her family's high profile made the story front-page news as the NYPD kept up the hunt for her.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • His visit, of course, was front-page news for the Orlando Sentinel and the Evening Star.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That attitude, Nixon lamented, had been on display in the front-page coverage of Manson.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This book charts the fascinating legal drama that turned a nascent abolitionist movement into front-page news.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Still, for Ukrainians going about their everyday lives and the country’s media, the potential shutdown is not front-page news.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The investigation had simmered for months before bursting into front-page news in August.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 June 2023
  • So far, the Alexander case has been, if not quite a sleeper, not splashy front-page news, perhaps because of a misguided sense of its political stakes.
    — Michael Li, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • When the documents turned out to be forged, the paper printed a front-page retraction, and Philips was pressured into resigning.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Your front-page article of June 11 described serious misuse of city issued P-cards.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2026
  • Wednesday's newspapers agree that presidential son Hunter Biden's felony convictions are front-page news.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 12 June 2024
  • The captain flew home, where pictures of him walking his dog became front-page news, while McCarthy led Ireland to the last 16.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Australian media reflected the opposing views in vastly different front-page treatments.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
  • For instance, front-page content is decided either by users as a voting community or by administrators.
    — Steve Paulussen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
  • Sanatan Sanstha denied any involvement, but a day later the group’s newsletter ran a front-page statement calling Dabholkar’s death a blessing.
    — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The investigation had simmered for months before bursting into front-page news in remarkable fashion last August.
    — Eric Tucker, ajc, 9 June 2023

front-page

2 of 2 verb
  • Barnbet was front-page news in 1912.
    — Lauren Nicole Henley, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
  • His front-page column has appeared for 65 years.
    — Carla Hinton, Oklahoman, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The ruling became front-page news in cities throughout the nation.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The front-page coverage, which the subject deserved, simply stated the facts.
    — Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • That trial balloon was unveiled by Steve Sadin in a front-page News-Sun story late last month.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Pinnacle tenants, who have formed one of the city’s largest cross-borough tenant unions, have also been trying to make the fate of their buildings a front-page story.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 15 Jan. 2026
  • There was no single day when the AI stock market euphoria buckled, no Lehman moment, no front-page meltdown.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Scoopy would come to adorn the front-page mastheads of all three Bee papers, while Gaby was used on radio station promotional material.
    — Seán McMahon, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This became front-page news when the criminal indictments came down, but back in February, agents had to stop investigating for weeks to work immigration.
    — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Joseph States’ front-page News-Sun report last week detailed alleged mishandling of the youngster’s brutal history over a four-year period.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • My compliments to Tribune photographer Antonio Perez on his lovely front-page photo.
    — Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The insistence of Eleanor Roosevelt to work only with women reporters was a boon to both women editors and women with aspirations for front-page reporting.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Had Johnson’s predecessor still been in charge, given the front-page news of the day, Saturday’s Spurs practice might have been covered by CNN.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • What should never come into question, however, is the importance of tackling the hard questions in the first place — specifically, those questions that get at the heart of how our world works — even if finding the correct solutions involves more dead ends than front-page news stories.
    — Mariangela Lisanti, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What should never come into question, however, is the importance of tackling the hard questions in the first place — specifically, those questions that get at the heart of how our world works — even if finding the correct solutions involves more dead ends than front-page news stories.
    — Mariangela Lisanti, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This May will be 36 years since a now-iconic front-page headline from the Green ’Un, Sheffield’s Saturday night sports paper, beautifully captured the mood of a divided footballing city.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • As if things could not get worse, the burning wreckage from an ill-conceived and failed US rescue attempt was put on full display and the visible proof of America’s declined and decrepit foreign policy was international front-page news.
    — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The judge said the sentence reflected the complexity of the mixed verdicts following two lengthy trials and the almost Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of Bongiovanni's career, in which the lawman racked up enough front-page accolades to fill a trophy case.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Target, the second-largest public corporation headquartered in the state (after UnitedHealth), experienced a front-page blowback from political controversies twice in recent years.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Overreliance on PAs has been a front-page tabloid issue in the UK ever since 30-year-old actress Emily Chesterton died from a blood clot in her leg that was missed by a PA during two visits.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Additionally, American Healthcare Systems, the for-profit corporation based in Glendale, California, which owns Vista, owes the city of Waukegan $366,000 in unpaid water bills, according to last week’s front-page News-Sun story by Steve Sadin.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Bundanon Illaroo, Australia 26 mai 2025 Jeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and poetry, including the celebrated novel Song of the Shank, which was a front-page review in both The New York Times Book Review and The San Francisco Chronicle.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026

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