How to Use leading edge in a Sentence

leading edge

noun
  • Let the grinder come up to speed and put the wheel’s leading edge against the work.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The leading edge of the hood is nearly five feet from the ground.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Her case was the leading edge of a moment that seemed to burst out of nowhere all at once.
    — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • This keeps the leading edge of the work from dropping in the table hole.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Drugs like modafinil, moreover, are just the leading edge of a growing trend.
    — Sherry Baker, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
  • Curved windows will be placed in the leading edge of the wing, in the ceiling and parts of the floor.
    — Hall Hibbard, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Instead, look at the leading edge of the clay, find the space in front of it, and pull the trigger.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 June 2020
  • The player's feet must stay behind the leading edge of the board during each throw.
    — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • Tornadoes could also still spin up along the leading edge of these storms.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
  • These clouds then start to trail behind the Kelvin wave that marks the leading edge of the cloud bank.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 May 2026
  • First contact is when the moon’s leading edge moves into the penumbra.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Dumbo’s marketing was once at the leading edge — but that was more than a decade ago.
    — Curbed, 28 July 2022
  • But those contracts are just the leading edge of what is shaping up to be a big new defense buildup.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe, but the investors that play the leading edge, but riskier game, stand to make the windfalls.
    — Veena Jetti, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The Oregon Zoo has been on the leading edge of those efforts.
    — oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Marketers love new trends and to be on the leading edge of new technologies and platforms.
    — Krista Neher, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The book’s use of present tense rushes us along on the leading edge of her experience.
    — Priscilla Gilman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But the leading edge of a new low pressure trough will begin to show on Wednesday.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • At the leading edge of this trend, the lines between a hotel and apartment are blurring.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • At the leading edge of this trend, the lines between a hotel and apartment are blurring.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
  • What worries scientists is that leading edge of the huge glacier is breaking apart in many places.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The windshield header has a one-inch channel to accept the top's leading edge.
    — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The flash of brightwork at the doors’ leading edges is very like a BMW.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Many vehicles are more than 40 inches tall at the leading edge of the hood.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • By the time the bulk of the crowd reached the building, its leading edge had metastasized into an angry mob.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
  • By the time the bulk of the crowd reached the building, its leading edge had metastasized into an angry mob.
    — Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The storm's leading edges lashed the state with bands of rain for most of the day, and some coastal roads were already underwater.
    — Janet McConnaughey, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • Once again, Berners-Lee seemed to be on history’s leading edge.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The leading edge of the front moves through the UK by Saturday with rain showers.
    — Gene Norman and Virginia Langmaid, CNN, 31 July 2020
  • On the leading edge of this spring-like air, however, there was a snowy mess yesterday in the Midwest.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2021

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