Below you will find example sentences with "front line". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Front Line in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: front
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.5 words

Words in this phrase

front line

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • front can mean: The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. Common word
  • line can mean: A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 3 middle, 12 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

on the front line 2× across the front line 1× along the front line in southern 1× been a front line city since 1× box whose front line was convert 1× calibres to front line troops 1× eastern front front line at the 1× from the front line 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a critical dam 1× a new dawn 1× a trucking system 1× although he disapproved 1× amid the ravages 1× arteta has been 1×

Common sentence endings:

the front line 6× a great success 1× able to represent 1× as was delivered 1× delivering the ball 1× entire front line 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

eastern 2× western 2× making 2× kick 2× off 2× ball 2× troops 2× used 2× although 2× across 2× able 2× himself 2×

Related phrases

offensive line finish line defensive line poverty line transmission line rail line bottom line front camera line bet railway line

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around front:

front door 13× cold front 8× front row 7× liberation front 6×

Just before it in the phrase index:

front legs front door front camera friendly relations friendly match fried chicken

Just after it in the phrase index:

front nine front row front window front yard fruit trees fruits vegetables

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

front camera front nine front door front legs front row front window

Same ending:

offensive line finish line defensive line poverty line transmission line rail line

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "front line" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 29.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as on the front line, across the front line, eastern, western and making stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with offensive line, finish line, defensive line, front door, cold front and front row, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with front line

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A new dawn across the front line? (7 words)

Make it to the front line by finding a word which can go in front of each set of words listed. (21 words)

Avdiivka has been a front line city since 2014, when Moscow-backed separatists seized a large portion of the Donbas region. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

While information on the Wehrmacht 's use of the Krag–Jørgensen is hard to find, it must be assumed that it was issued primarily to second line units since the Wehrmacht attempted to only issue firearms in standard calibres to front line troops. (43 words)

Eastern Front Front line at the time of cease-fire and at the time of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk While the Western Front was a stalemate for the German Army, the Eastern Front eventually proved to be a great success. (41 words)

You should notice that the Eagles have the front line at the 47-48 yard line while the Bills had almost of their front line guys at the 50, making the surprise kick much easier to pull off. (38 words)

Question examples

A new dawn across the front line? (7 words)

Example sentences (20)

Eastern Front Front line at the time of cease-fire and at the time of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk While the Western Front was a stalemate for the German Army, the Eastern Front eventually proved to be a great success.

You should notice that the Eagles have the front line at the 47-48 yard line while the Bills had almost of their front line guys at the 50, making the surprise kick much easier to pull off.

A trucking system nicknamed the Red Ball Express brought supplies to front-line troops, but used up five times as much fuel to reach the front line near the Belgian border as was delivered.

So although a truce was indeed observed in many sectors along the front in Belgium and France on Christmas Day 1914, this wasn’t true across the entire front line.

The thing I like most about this career is being able to be on the front line and being the front face of the company, being able to represent.

Make it to the front line by finding a word which can go in front of each set of words listed.

Although he disapproved strongly of the mass slaughter involved in many Western Front actions, he exposed himself to danger by making excursions to the front line or into No Man's Land.

Soldiers' lives are thrown away by their commanding officers who are stationed comfortably away from the front, ignorant of the daily terrors of the front line.

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Russia has increasingly used powerful glide bombs to pummel Ukrainian positions along the 1,000-kilometer (600-miles) line of contact and strike cities dozens of kilometers (miles) from the front line.

Proulx and many other Airmen continue working behind the scenes, on the flight line, and on the front line to support their community.

Since 1881, pitchers had pitched within a "box" whose front line was convert from home base, and since 1887 they had been compelled to toe the back line of the box when delivering the ball.

While information on the Wehrmacht 's use of the Krag–Jørgensen is hard to find, it must be assumed that it was issued primarily to second line units since the Wehrmacht attempted to only issue firearms in standard calibres to front line troops.

A critical dam and hydroelectric power plant along the front line in southern Ukraine was destroyed on Tuesday, putting thousands of people at risk of flooding.

Amid the ravages of war, Sergey, a seasoned mercenary, found himself grappling with the relentless violence that has become a way of life and death on the front line.

A new dawn across the front line?

Arteta has been speaking ahead of kick-off and has explained that he chose to drop Martinelli and bring in Trossard as he 'needs some energy in the front line'.

Avdiivka has been a front line city since 2014, when Moscow-backed separatists seized a large portion of the Donbas region.

Beanie hats can be made using any fibre, but they be dark grey, navy, khaki, dark brown or black so that soldiers can remain inconspicuous on the front line.

But soon after being deployed to Ukraine the former prisoners realised they were being sent into a "total meat-grinder" without proper armaments or without even being told of the real situation on the front line, he said.

David heads south to the front line city of Mykolaiv where there are rumours of a massive impending battle over the neighbouring town of Kherson.

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