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Example sentences for "our front"

  • When it rained at the Exum place, water ran out of our pasture, across the parking area by our front yard, and continued on down a road toward the blacksmith shop.

  • The water backed up and covered the parking area by our front yard.

  • In two or three days the dam had to be destroyed and the lake drained so we could use the road again and so we could get in and out of our front yard.

  • There were flower beds and flowers in our front yard, and morning glory vines on the front yard fence and china trees in the back yard.

  • From one section of our front to the other I was kept continually on the move.

  • The position from a photographic point of view was admirable, and I doubt whether on any other part of our front such a suitable point could be found.

  • Therefore I suggested that I should go up very early in the morning to our front line, getting there about four o'clock.

  • Two or three of them were in sight of our front windows, one being just across the street.

  • He returned just as I had formed the two companies into line with orders to make a reconnoissance on the Washington road, and, without getting into a fight, ascertain, as near as I could, the strength of the enemy in our front.

  • In our front, to the south, was an open field for a thousand or twelve hundred yards, the farther part of which was partially covered with the brush and stumps of the newly cleared field, and beyond this was woods.

  • Soult had withdrawn every thing from our front in the course of the night, and had now attacked Sir Rowland Hill with his whole force.

  • Finding that the enemy had quitted the position in our front, we proceeded to follow them; and had not gone far before we heard the usual morning's salutation, of a couple of shots, between their rear and our advanced guard.

  • We expected to draw the best German divisions to our front and to consume them while the enemy was held under grave apprehension lest our attack should break his line, which it was our firm purpose to do.

  • On October 4 the attack was renewed all along our front.

  • At most of the positions we occupied on this move it was the exception when splinters and pieces of broken rails were not flying from the fences which stood in our front, hurled by shot and shell.

  • Dick Taylor, formed in our front and, charging with the old yell, captured the fort.

  • With a few skeleton regiments supplied with numerous flags which he posted to show over the crests of the ridges in our rear, as if there were men in proportion, he himself took command of a line of sharpshooters in our front.

  • Soon after this, our attention was attracted by the approach, along the road in our front, of ten or twelve horsemen, riding leisurely toward us, one of whom bore a banner of unusually large size.

  • In our front was a cheering scene, towards which we hastened with all speed; as sailors rush on deck at the first cry of "Land ahead!

  • We find the enemy on the east aide of the Salkiehatchie, and cavalry in our front; but all give ground on our approach, and seem to be merely watching us.

  • Of these, only Hardee and the cavalry were immediately in our front, while the bulk of Johnston's army was supposed to be collecting at or near Raleigh.

  • On October 4th the attack was renewed all along our front.

  • In North Russia we were out of luck in the lack of Salvation Army Lassies enough to reach around to our front, but in that isolated war area we were fortunate to receive several representatives of the American Y.

  • It was known that they had begun to augment their forces on our front.

  • The Bolos were on our front, our right flank and our rear, we were entirely cut off from communication, and there were no reinforcements available.

  • Russell was placed in command of our front line.

  • The Confederate troops take all advantage possible of the numerous ravines in our front; but the batteries at Fairview pour a heavy and destructive fire of shell and case into their columns as they press on.

  • Warren and Gibbon at once rode forward to make a reconnoissance, but could discover no particular force of the enemy in our front.

  • An hour or two later, having ascertained the Confederate movement across our front, he had sent his circular to Howard and Slocum.

  • So early as eight o'clock Birney of the Third Corps, whose division had been thrust in between Howard and Slocum, reported to Sickles that a movement in considerable force was being made in our front.

  • I was in the lead when a large bull train was sighted in our front, and shortly afterward the wagon-boss met me and earnestly begged that I allow his outfit to pass before we crossed the wagon-road.

  • But as we left the valley and came up on the mesa, there on an angle in our front, Flood's herd snailed along like an army brigade, anxious to dispute our advance.

  • Yet from this same hill I could easily trace the meanderings of the creek for miles as it made a half circle in our front, both inviting and defying us.

  • In the mean time my boys kept an eye on the Mexican outfit in our front, scarcely a day passing but what we sighted them either in person or by signal.

  • The atmosphere was frosty and clear, and once the gray of dawn yielded to the rising sun, the outline of the Yellowstone was easily traced on our left, while the bluffs in our front shielded a view of the mother Missouri.

  • The affair was only briefly mentioned in the communiqués: "On the 22nd a mine was exploded under a German gallery on our front.

  • Thus he achieved the double result of winning the Military Cross for his skill and blowing up a portion of our front line, from which fortunately our men had been withdrawn.

  • To the right of our front at Matthew Copse the ground slopes southward a little, past what may once have been a pond or quarry, but is now a pit in the mud, to the Serre road.

  • The features are a lane, fifty or sixty yards in front of our front trench, and a remblai or lynchet fifty or sixty yards in front of the lane.

  • The great delay in an enemy's country necessary to fit him out gave them time to throw a large force in our front.

  • We were on a plateau with a broad open valley in our front.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our front" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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