How to Use frontal in a Sentence

frontal

1 of 2 noun
  • Swap your disposable head ties for a satin sash to lay your edges and lace frontals.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The Bone and Arrow Make bonding meet bondage with this full-frontal pose.
    — Aurora Tower, Cosmopolitan, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Once openings appeared that were large enough to move a soldier through, the main frontal assault could begin.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Once openings appeared that were large enough to move a soldier through, the main frontal assault could begin.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2017
  • They were found in ocean frontal zones, which act as the boundaries between different water masses.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • Though Bee is the public face of Full Frontal, the show wouldn't go on without Miller.
    — Lorraine Berry, Marie Claire, 10 May 2017
  • Kim posts a full-frontal pic wearing nothing but controversial cornrows, a luxe fur coat, and a teeny tiny thong.
    — Alison Caporimo, Seventeen, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The month’s weather was marked by a persistent pattern in which frontal boundaries remained draped over the region.
    — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2018
  • Those rats developed deficiencies in their brains' pre-frontal cortex.
    — Amy Chillag, CNN, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Dolin is also seen in a number of nude poses, far from full frontal, but startlingly self-dramatizing.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • My towel, a security blankie at first, is quickly discarded in favor of full-frontal.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The damage the disease is doing is to his frontal cortex, where cognition and intellect resides.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 17 May 2018
  • Well south of Interstate 80 will be a nearly stationary west-east frontal boundary.
    — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • The online site offers bundles, meaning the hair is on a weft that can either be used for a sew-in weave or a wig, in addition to lace closures and frontals.
    — Lara Adekola, Allure, 2 Mar. 2018
  • When a frontal assault fails, a parasite may take an indirect route to send its own self-serving chemical signals into a brain.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Forecasters said a nearly stationary frontal boundary draped over the area is expected to dissipate over the next few days.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 July 2019
  • The network of neurons that broadcast these messages is hypothesized to be located in the frontal and parietal lobes.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • Humidity is running high as well, with dew points stuck in the low 60s until the aforementioned frontal passage.
    — Greg Porter, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2018
  • This requires continual contraction of your frontal core muscles (mainly, your abs) as well as the muscles in your mid and lower back.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Payoffs include a viewing deck built on an extended outcrop for full frontal of 410-foot falls, with side trip to brink of falls (fenced for safety).
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But in modern humans, the frontal lobes of the brain have expanded toward the back and sides, creating structures called the frontal opercula.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
  • Viewed from the side, Washington’s Roman nose seems larger than in the frontal poses in the familiar paintings.
    — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 9 June 2018
  • Since the frontal cortex of an adolescent brain is still developing, teenagers aren’t fully able to reason or control impulses.
    — Joelle Renstrom, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Cortical folding appears to decrease with age across large swaths of the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes in both young people with autism and controls.
    — Rachel Zamzow, Scientific American, 9 July 2018
  • There's also the tantalizing possibility that our beloved Christian will go full frontal in the sequel.
    — Simedar Jackson, Marie Claire, 21 May 2015
  • The disease targets the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes, causing the debilitating symptoms.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The slight remains of the weak frontal system pushed south Thursday morning dropping some showers on the Salem/Albany areas.
    — OregonLive.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The disturbance that brought a round of showers to the area Friday evening has moved well to the east, pushing a frontal boundary south, to the Ohio Valley.
    — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • Ivory has complained about the director’s decision to keep the nudity discreet and occasional, as opposed to more frequent and full-frontal.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Photos posted by passengers online showed the outer of the two engines under the right wing with extensive damage, and the entire frontal ring of the cowling missing.
    — Mark Deen, Bloomberg.com, 1 Oct. 2017

frontal

2 of 2 adjective
  • Who couldn’t use a little frontal-lobe jumpstart?
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Or any sort of French speaker would be more pursed and the lips would be more frontal.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Make the bottom line and no frontal nudity.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The chance of rain and the breeze will increase early next week due to our next frontal system.
    — Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Wednesday’s frontal boundary will pull to the north, taking the rain and storm chances with it.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The forcing and lift along the frontal boundary will keep storm chances around through the weekend.
    — Newsroom Meteorologist, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Lean casual or go full-frontal glamour?
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 25 May 2026
  • Most people are losing their ability to move on the frontal plane.
    — Roger Lockridge, Men's Health, 30 May 2022
  • The fact-checker of the brain sits in the frontal cortex, behind the forehead.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Sagittal, frontal, and even a little bit of transverse—this workout has it all.
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The frontal plane is your side-to-side movements, and the transverse plane is twisting movements.
    — Sarah Klein, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The defect was linked to at least 54 frontal crashes and the deaths of more than a dozen people.
    — Christopher Dilella, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There’s no frontal nudity, for example, in this show, right?
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Highs will warm up slightly by late weekend on Sunday ahead of a frontal boundary.
    — Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • But in everyday life, this friction rarely ends in mass protests or frontal collisions.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • This frontal passage will bring a low chance of rain east of Dallas-Fort Worth.
    — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Lateral shuffling works the frontal plane of movement, going side to side.
    — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The rain chance is high on Tuesday due to plenty of moisture south of a frontal boundary to our north.
    — Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • Hahn didn’t respond to that frontal attack on his agency’s integrity.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And yet another weak low may pass as a frontal boundary sinks southward Friday.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • There is room, of course, for offense, and not merely over some full-frontal nudity from men around 60.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • The behavioral variant, which is linked to changes in the frontal and temporal lobes, is the most common.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Hutcherson also opened up about how his character had a full frontal nude scene, which his great-grandma saw.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Winds will also increase with the frontal passage, leading to windchills in the 30s to end the day.
    — Matthew Villafane, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The new standard will mirror the requirements for a child's car seat in 30-mph frontal-impact crash.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 22 June 2022
  • Limited mobility in your frontal plane, which allows your foot to move from side to side, can cause pain in your knees on the hill.
    — Anna Fiorentino, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Surgeons explain why a certain method suits your hair type and how grafts will be allocated to the frontal band, mid scalp, and crown.
    — Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There is no sign of the militants preparing for a frontal attack on Bamako.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Then there's the exterior frontal pocket, which is everything to me.
    — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 26 Aug. 2023
  • These included back teeth, such as molars and premolars, as well as more frontal incisors and canines.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025

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