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Example sentences for "front"

Lexicographically close words:
frondage; fronded; frondes; fronds; frons; frontage; frontages; frontal; frontalis; frontals
  1. Lance and Chet on the front seat of the machine, with Bobby between them, hadn't heard it at all.

  2. When I walked into the grounds and started up the front stoop, a butler, or footman, or something, all togged up in livery, told me that I must go around to the side door if I had come to see the cook.

  3. Hester glanced at him sharply and then walked to the front room window where Dr.

  4. With an appropriate time-of-flight "front end," the 6130 will be able to handle the anticipated faster rates.

  5. However, ADC's and scalers available from the traditional sources can easily be interfaced to the front end (whose price is in keeping with its power and versatility).

  6. Module 1 will contain a stripped-down monitor program and all data-handling programs, including buffer regions for the external devices other than the time-of-flight front end.

  7. A combination of a large (by present standards) computer with a powerful small computer as a front end was designed.

  8. This enables it to do its intended job without acting as a bottleneck in jobs requiring the power of the front end.

  9. The development of high-speed, buffered, time-of-flight front ends has been a continuing interest at Columbia.

  10. The one application described above, which does warrant a separate processor, is handled best by attaching the processor to a separate input port rather than by placing it between the front end and the computer.

  11. On eighteenpence a day no man could have splendours or luxuries, but he might have water free from the fountain he had just passed in front of that church in Fleet Street, and water was a great deal.

  12. All at once in front of the shop of one, Farryner, baker to the King, was raised a cry: "Fire!

  13. Curtis was the only man who remained on his feet, but with indomitable pluck he continued to stand on the front of the raft, waiting, watching, hoping.

  14. I could no longer keep my place, and glided along to the front of the raft.

  15. Letourneur placed himself in front of Andre to shelter him from the waves.

  16. After all the congregation had taken their seats, Mr Swinton rose and moved towards the front of the pulpit, and the silence in the church was as the silence at the martyrdom of some holy martyr.

  17. On arriving at the ferry of Inver, the field in front of the Bishop of Dunkeld's house, where the army had been encamped, was empty.

  18. Providence led me to fall in with this person one morning, as we were standing among a crowd of other onlookers, seeing Claverhouse reviewing his men in the front court of Holyrood-house.

  19. Illustration] With the right hand carry the piece in front of the center of the body, barrel to the rear and vertical, grasp it with the left hand at the balance, forearm horizontal and resting against the body.

  20. In the larger units, when the original deployment is found to be in the wrong direction, it will usually be necessary to deploy the reserve on the correct front and withdraw and assemble the first line.

  21. We can generally see better what is going on to our front and flanks; and the men have a feeling of security that they do not enjoy on low ground.

  22. They constructed miles of wire entanglements in front of positions occupied with an enormous number of machine guns and comparatively few men.

  23. These, in turn, subdivide the front among their next lower units in the firing line.

  24. Illustration] Each rear-rank man aims through the interval to the right of his file leader and leans slightly forward to advance the muzzle of his piece beyond the front rank.

  25. This was done on a large scale on the Russian front by the Germans in 1915.

  26. To provide against attack from the right, left, or rear the soldier will change front as quickly as possible in the most convenient manner, for example, =1.

  27. At the second command, the leading company marches in line to the right; the companies in rear continue to march to the front and form successively on the left, each, when opposite its place, being marched in line to the right.

  28. Points marked M with arrows projecting to the flanks are machine guns, so located as to sweep the front of the position with a cross fire.

  29. Next carry the left-front corner to the right and back as described above; this, when completed, will leave the front and rear sides of the tent lying smooth and flat and the two side walls folded inward, each on itself.

  30. Two men carrying a load between them, by one or more poles, as a sedan chair, or as brewers carrying a cask of beer, in which case either the back or front man may be considered as the fulcrum, and the other as the power.

  31. At length the happy day arrived; a post-chaise drew up to the front gate, and Tom was once again folded in the arms of his affectionate and delighted parents.

  32. The secret of the marvelous success of Francke's efforts may be read in the simple inscription on the monument erected to his memory in front of the famous orphanage at Halle.

  33. The king then mounted his charger, and, drawing his sword, rode back and forth in front of the lines, speaking words of encouragement to his men.

  34. We learn from his character and history what God means by callings, birthrights, and blessings, and how much those whom He places in the front rank have to toil and suffer for the world.

  35. The pace of progress would thus be permanently adjusted to the strength of the weakest, instead of being so regulated as to stimulate and help the weaker to press on into the front line.

  36. A fire was blazing in front of the tent, sending a thin column of smoke straight up into the still air.

  37. In front of the restaurant they crashed into another team, and there was a rush to see how much damage had been done.

  38. The boy had taken a seat where he could watch the front door.

  39. And now six men, with rifles in their hands, formed a line in front of the prisoners.

  40. As the hermit turned away he happened to glance into the tent, the front of which was still open.

  41. The sneers of the receiving teller angered the boy; but he held his feelings in check, and did not seem to hear the man when he proposed that Merriwell be handed over to the special policeman in front of the bank.

  42. Bonehill is in the very front rank as an author of boys' stories.

  43. On the front door of the jail was a push-button that connected by a wire with a gong within the building.

  44. For a country rising rapidly to a front place in the commercial world it was ill adapted.

  45. We can never hope to overtake and pass an evil if we always cast it in front of us.

  46. That is to say, by dragging the mouth up they render the horse blind instead of alive to what is in front of him; and what with spurring and whipping they distract the creature to the point of absolute bewilderment and danger.

  47. In this way the neck will be well in front of the rider, and the eye will command what lies before the horse's feet.

  48. Simultaneously its owner lurched his way to the front rank, the others making room for him with that respectful sympathy, not unmixed with envy, which is always accorded to a true-born Briton in his condition.

  49. There would be a fire there: I would spend the rest of the night on a sofa in front of it.

  50. The first was a typewritten document which had been handed up by a thoughtful-looking gentleman in the front row.

  51. The room was nearly dark, but she was there, sitting curled up in front of the fire.

  52. Well, there was a rather gorgeous-looking chieftain sort of person sitting in a front pew, and I saw Maimie twisting her head all during the service to look at him.

  53. Evidently some one was coming up to this same landing by the front stair.

  54. There was an awkward hummock in front of it, and driven birds swinging into view round this were practically right over the butt before its occupant could get his gun up.

  55. In front of the judgement-seat is a large center-table, on which are various law-books and the Prussian Vase.

  56. He goes out, and is heard chuckling in the hall and down to the front gate.

  57. Two more at least were in front of the Rood-loft or Jube, and the remaining one very probably was in one of the aisles.

  58. He cringes in front of the inspector's desk, and suddenly his hand flickers upwards with a deft movement.

  59. Catesby's right hand is raised in front of Christopher Wright, while Catesby's left hand rests on the hilt of the sword girded on his side.

  60. In front of Mulwith still flows, as in the ancient days, the historic waters of the Ure.

  61. With an affectation of indifference I began to chop idly at the ground in front of me with my hatchet.

  62. He sat staring in front of him at nothing, recovering his breath.

  63. The muffled figure in front ran in great striding leaps along the beach, and Moreau followed her.

  64. I looked round and saw to the right of me and a half-dozen yards in front of me a narrow gap in the wall of rock through which a ray of light slanted into the shadows.

  65. Mr. Brett stopped the car in front of the door.

  66. I wanted to be very good friends with everybody, including Potter; and I fell in love with the house, the minute I set foot on the front verandah.

  67. I told the cabman to wait, and then ran up the four or five steps to ring the front door bell.

  68. Instead of falling in front of Mr. Lobster-Claw, the parcel hit the ear of a very tall young man among the crowd below, who had been standing with his back to me.

  69. The house is trimmed with three wide bands of carving, made of the same kind of stone; and there are carved bronze railings and lamps on the porch; and the front door is carved, too, like the door of a cathedral.

  70. She was sitting in a chair in front of the makeshift dressing-table, putting on her rings, and clasping bracelets on her wrists with vicious snaps.

  71. An inch more, and it must have slid down over his collar--which was so low in the neck in front that it gave me the creeps.

  72. When I wanted to go out he stood in front of the door, and wouldn't let me pass; and his chin and eyes looked so horribly determined that he was more like Mrs. Ess Kay than ever.

  73. Nobody knows whether they are engaged yet, although they go to the apple orchard regularly every evening and sit together in a boat swing which is there, or if it rains they sit on the front porch, until quite late.

  74. But look here, Mother, you might have had the front door open.

  75. Here the young men were planted upon the asphalt boulevard, in front of the Cafe de Seville.

  76. Each recited his own, called upon by Sillery; each would rise without being urged, place his chair in front of him, and leaning one hand upon its back, would recite his poem or elegy.

  77. Followed by the only son of his companion in arms in Africa and the Crimea, this office clerk and dauber in watercolors walked to the front as tranquilly as he would have gone to the minister's office with his umbrella under his arm.

  78. Certainly they only asked for service; it was not their fault, after all, if one had not confidence in them, and if they were not sent to the front as soon as they reached the fortifications.

  79. In the vestibule he tried to imitate the advocate's bearing, which was full of authority; but quickly despaired of knowing how to swell out his starched shirt-front under the severe looks of four tall lackeys in silk stockings.

  80. In front of the National Guard, on the other side of the road, a battalion, which had been strongly put to the test the night before, were cooking.

  81. With trembling hands Shorthouse opened the front door, and they walked out into the moonlight and drew a deep breath of the cool night air blowing in from the sea.

  82. A moment later the door opened and Marx hurried into the room and set a dish in front of his master.

  83. Come down and walk with me," cried the young fellow, stopping a moment in front of the horses and opening wide his arms.

  84. When they entered the front drawing-room it was plain that the folding doors had been closed--half a minute before.

  85. He wore an overcoat buttoned up to the neck, and on the felt hat which he held in front of him fresh rain-drops glistened.

  86. Blake made an apology and rose to fetch him, crossing the room in front of the sofa where the man sat, in order to reach the door.

  87. He led the way across the hall, shutting the front door carefully behind him, and noticed as he did so that the other, though certainly sober, was unsteady on his legs, and evidently much exhausted.

  88. The mass, hanging like a side of bacon, was only a few feet in front of me, and I could plainly see the dark line of rope that fastened it to the beam.

  89. The thought crashed through his brain like thunder, and at the same moment, almost before he had time to appreciate a quarter of its significance, there came a loud knocking at the front door below.

  90. He held it in front of him and tapped it once or twice with the back of his right hand as if it were a stage letter and himself the villain of the melodrama.

  91. It was the reflection that if another vivid flash of lightning were to come when the shadowy procession was in the room, perhaps when it was actually passing in front of me, I should see everything in detail, and worse, be seen myself!

  92. It was nothing but the noise of the front door.

  93. She planted her fore feet at a most resisting angle in front of her, and there she stuck; the united forces of the leaders and her collaborateur, the offside wheeler, were insufficient to move her.

  94. While this scene was going on in front of the coach, five other convicts seized the keeper behind, and rifling his pockets obtained the keys of the handcuffs.

  95. At six in the morning the carriage began to move from before the ancient front of All Souls' College, and at seven in the evening the adventurous gentlemen who had run the first risk were safely deposited at their inn in London.

  96. As we drove up to the door of the "Bull Inn" we found, to our great horror, a crowd assembled in front of it.

  97. Up to the front of this building dashed the carriage at a great rate, in the midst of a scene so still and solitary, that, but for the house, one might have fancied the place a desert.

  98. His pursuer was close on his heels, but as soon as he saw his immovable companion, who was covered with snow, his front paws alone being visible, he stopped short, and approached him.

  99. I've just heard a rumour That the Germans' whole front has been cleft-- Quick!

  100. You can talk quite freely in front of her.

  101. Will all Jehoshaphats combine to send bridge tables to the Front for use of brave boys?


  102. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "front" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acting; aerospace; affectation; affront; agent; air; airs; alibi; alveolar; anterior; apology; appearance; assimilated; back; banter; beachhead; beard; bearing; blind; bluff; border; brassy; bravado; brave; brazen; breast; bridgehead; broad; brow; bump; ceiling; central; cerebral; challenge; chief; circumference; cloak; close; coalition; color; coloring; complain; confront; connection; consonant; contend; contrast; cortex; counteract; cover; covering; creature; crust; cyclone; dare; deception; defy; delusion; dental; deputy; device; disguise; display; dispute; dissemblance; dissent; dorsal; dummy; encounter; envelope; envisage; epidermis; excuse; exterior; external; externals; facade; face; facet; facing; falsity; feint; figurehead; first; flat; fog; fore; forefront; foreground; forehand; foremost; forward; fraud; fringe; front; frontage; frontal; frontier; frontispiece; gall; gaudiness; gilt; glide; gloss; glottal; guise; guttural; handle; hard; head; heading; headmost; heavy; high; hole; humbug; hypocrisy; image; imposture; insincerity; integument; intercessor; intermediary; intermediate; isotherm; kick; labial; lap; lateral; lax; lead; leading; light; line; lineaments; lingual; liquid; look; low; maiden; main; mannerism; mask; masquerade; match; mediator; medium; meet; mid; middleman; mouthpiece; movement; muted; narrow; nasal; negotiator; object; obverse; open; oppose; ostentation; outline; outpost; outrank; outside; overcast; palatal; periphery; persona; pharyngeal; phonetic; phonic; pioneer; pitched; pocket; pose; posing; posture; precede; precedence; preceding; precursor; preface; prefix; premier; present; pretence; pretense; pretension; pretext; primary; prime; principal; priority; proscenium; protest; protestation; puppet; rank; rate; refuge; remonstrate; representation; revolt; right; rind; roughness; rounded; royal; scapegoat; scout; screen; seeming; semblance; sham; shell; show; simulacrum; simulation; skin; soft; sonant; soup; space; spearhead; speciousness; spokesman; stand; stem; stopped; stratagem; stratosphere; stressed; strong; subtend; subterfuge; superficiality; surd; surface; syllabic; tense; thick; throaty; tonal; tonic; top; trick; trough; turbulence; unaccented; unstressed; van; vanguard; varnish; veil; veneer; venture; visibility; voiced; voiceless; vowel; weak; wide; withstand


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    front and; front door; front gate; front line; front room; front seat; front view; frontal attack; frontier life; frontier town