FRONT


Meaning of FRONT in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a back/front/side pocket

He took a wad of money from his back pocket.

a front window

I don't want people looking in my front window.

a front/rear tyre

I bought a set of new front tyres.

cold front

directly in front of/behind/under etc sth

It was a small house, directly behind the church.

front and center

Prayer in schools has become a front-and-center issue.

front bench

front desk

front door

front doorstep

the front doorstep

front foot (= of an animal )

The tiger has five claws in each of its front feet.

front line

troops who had served in the front line at Magdeburg

front line

young soldiers who were sent to the front line to fight

front man

front matter

front of house

the front-of-house manager

front office

front room

front/back yard

The kids were playing in the back yard.

home front

The film is set on the home front in 1943.

in front of...mirror

He spends hours in front of the mirror !

sb's front/back teeth

Some of his front teeth were missing.

shop front

smack in the middle/in front of sth etc

There was a hole smack in the middle of the floor.

the front garden British English (= at the front of a house )

Their house had a small front garden.

the front wheel

Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid.

the front/back cover

The price of the book is on the back cover.

the front/back door key

She felt in her pocket for the front door key.

the front/back edge

I banged my elbow on the front edge of the desk.

the front/back gate (= the gate in front of or at the back of a building )

She stood outside the front gate of the cottage.

the front/back page (= of a newspaper )

Her picture was on the front page of every newspaper.

the front/back/rear seat (= in a car )

Never leave bags on the back seat of a car.

the front/back/rear/side entrance

There is a long drive with steps leading to the front entrance.

the front/back/side door (= of a house )

I heard someone knocking at the front door.

Use the back door if your boots are muddy.

the front/head of the queue

He pushed his way to the front of the queue.

the front/rear/side exit

When the lights dimmed, she slipped out by the rear exit.

the rear/front brakes (= for the rear/front wheels )

The rear brakes were ineffective.

warm front

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

broad

On a broader front , I have been impressed by the various initiatives which have been taken locally to manage costs.

It was an effort to roll back federal aid to the poor across a much broader front .

cold

Where the cold front of winter can be a killer.

Another cold front passed through the north state Monday night and early Tuesday, chilling the region with November-like temperatures.

Never risk parking out overnight without checking the weather forecast for a strong wind warning or the approach of a cold front .

Forecasters are banking on a cold front to clear cloudy conditions.

But all that was some months ago and she had a cold front since for her hefty swinging colleague.

Clearing conditions were forecast behind the cold front that dragged low clouds through Central Florida early Friday.

domestic

It will be equal competition on the domestic front .

From the mid-forties onward Congress legislated for the domestic front while the President acted on the foreign front.

On the domestic front , disposal tends to mean throwing rubbish in the bin.

It deals with the domestic intelligence front .

On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting.

By March of 1188, Frederick seemed finally to have defeated his opponents on the major domestic and imperial fronts .

economic

On the economic front , there are two pro-regional arguments.

Reducing inflation was, until 1989, the government's greatest achievement on the economic front .

united

McCord's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon's officials.

Microsoft refuses to be phased by emergence of united Unix front Tough talk?

Instead, there will be attempts to paper over the chasms and put on a united front for the sake of appearances.

A united front was to be formed with the Nationalists.

In the last six months, inter-party rivalry has been subordinated to the need for a united unionist front .

But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front .

You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.

The right wing put forward a united front with the clear aim of overthrowing the republic.

wide

Undoubtedly a major factor here is the 5ins longer wheelbase and wider front and rear tracks.

On a wider front secularism has affected our lives in a variety of ways.

The method thus supplies greater transparency and insight and leads to a unified approach offering progress along a wide front .

It is important to note that we have greatly increased the number of professionals providing services on a wide range of fronts .

Whatever the cause of failure, help to families has to operate on a wide front .

Restrictions on advertising and fees have been relaxed over a wider front .

■ NOUN

home

But on the home front , too, it's been a busy year.

One spouse may work days while the other works nights in order to keep the home front covered.

But there is definitely change on the home front .

Racial violence on the home front and the war abroad contended for headlines.

It was correctly viewed as the low point of wartime morale on the home front .

During World War I she was conspicuous for her public relief work on the home front .

Other news from the home front .

More dangerous on the home front are the volatile substances that are inhaled to produce a high.

shop

In the courtyard of the family home, on the road and in shop fronts , people chatted, smoked, gossiped.

The stalls had disappeared, the shop fronts were boarded up.

A freshly painted shop front with shining glass and a window full of bottles.

The streets were jammed tight with narrow shop fronts and grimy cafés.

Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs.

Across the streets whole shop fronts lay in a mangled mess.

Paint was peeling from the shop fronts , some premises were derelict.

■ VERB

present

But this phalanx of enemies, all with influence in the legislature, did not present an unbroken front .

It was not expected to be waterproof, although obviously in combination with the mortar it should present a united front .

But in the face of the enemy they presented a united front .

You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other.

Inpart this failure of the middle classes to present a unified political front arose from the very intransigence of the regime.

At this stage nothing remains but that each should present an opaque front to the other.

Parents need to present a combined front to the children which is firm and united.

Both Secunderabad and Hyderabad presented long arcaded fronts to the platform, back by powerful rectangular blocks containing offices.

sit

They suggested she sat at the front of the class, and her bright hand shot up to answer every question.

I sat at the front of the coach, next to the driver.

A black serviceman boarded a city bus and sat in front , remembers Chauvin, who lives in Hayward.

An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles.

Jim sits in front of four computer screens, controlling de-inking equipment that cost $ 42 million to install.

I sat up front with him.

stand

Three men approached the car, and one of them stood in front of it, Velarde said.

The moment they emerged from the field, Jinju felt as if she were standing naked in front of a crowd.

He crossed the room, stood in front of the board, and thought for a moment.

He stands in front of the cameras and preaches with unmistakable pomposity, treating his opinions as if they were holy writ.

An elderly woman in a kimono stands blankly in front of the second photograph.

I could see her there standing in front of me, crying, because the others were telling her she was ugly.

He walks down the steps and stands in front of Primo.

Then she took pictures of Primo, Felix and Manny, standing in front of its crossing eight-foot blades.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

back to front

Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.

You've got your sweater on back to front.

And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?

But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?

I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.

It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.

Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.

Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.

The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.

They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.

dangle sth in front of sb/before sb

front/rear/back wheels

in the front line

It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.

Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?

She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.

They were sitting in the front line of chairs.

We really were in the front line.

make the papers/headlines/front page etc

And the story made the front pages.

Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.

Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.

out front

But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.

Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.

I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.

I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.

Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?

That the police chief was parked out front?

There was some kind of commotion out front.

put on a brave face/front

He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.

I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.

Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.

Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.

Newspaper staff put on a brave face.

No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.

Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She puts on this "innocent little girl" act, but it's all a front .

The car rental company is actually a front for a drugs ring.

The charity has been accused of being a front for anti-government activity.

The club was just a front - Luchese's real business was drug smuggling and gun running.

Trucks are heading toward the front with fresh supplies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Clinton ordered Pennsylvania Avenue closed to vehicular traffic in front of the White House.

His black hair was now white, as were his shoulders and the front of his coat.

His whole life passed in front of me; the lives of his fathers, his sons.

Over instead of pull it over in front .

The front had undergone a terrible impact, the rest was essentially intact.

The disenfranchising effect of unemployment has worked on a number of fronts.

The distinctively figured wood facing the wings on both back and front is an unusual choice of yew.

The pass has a slight loft and, crucially, is thrown in front of Edney.

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bench

He spoke frequently and effectively on the Conservative front bench until the progress of Parkinson's disease made it impossible.

Six boys from the front bench were selected.

I do not believe in patronage even from the Labour front bench .

They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House.

There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country.

When the Asquith government was formed there was of course no post for such a recent recruit to the front bench .

The Opposition front bench , and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.

This aroused the resentment of almost the whole front bench , but Wigg's hostility was not evenly spread.

cover

This book ought to have a free razor-blade stuck to its front cover .

In advance he had prepared a message and written a list of page numbers inside the front cover .

We were promised a front cover with International Musician and they wanted the band just to pose with their instruments.

On the front cover , a dilute tabby looks nobly if nervously to its right.

David wouldn't do it, so we lost the front cover .

Little things, simple things, like a passport with an eagle on the front cover .

The front cover of Dry, their debut album, captures Harvey's lipsticked mouth smudged against glass.

desk

The unit is controlled from the front desk and it is programmed to accept cards with the correct codes.

They are used to keep track of what happens in the classrooms and at the front desk .

I marched to the front desk and enquired the price of single room for one night.

Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.

As front desk personnel come and go, training and retraining is crucial for the daily success of any system.

A large black man sat behind the front desk with his sleeves rolled up.

After checking in and taking a shower, I tried to ring Merrit from the front desk .

Soon the big fellow did the same, fixing his trousers even as he passed the front desk with wet face averted.

door

At the end of the corridor leading from the front door was the kitchen, where he found the fridge.

There were two swallows nesting above our front door .

Polly gingerly took up the receiver of the entryphone intercom that hung on the wall beside her front door .

And some designers are even painting front doors to match the landscaping.

Our communal phone is on the hallway wall by the front door .

Their front yards and front doors facing the streets will make them safer, housing experts believe.

They waited until the front door of the flat slammed.

A residence was entered by forcing a front door .

end

At the front end Open windows or the X Window system can be run.

The front end is where he works.

Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access.

As I conveniently feed his front end , his droppings should cascade on to the newspapers covering the floor.

The consequence of having a front end is that stimuli tend to make their impact there first.

The freight train was partially derailed, with its shattered front end resting close to a home.

You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end !

But this porcupine had no scratch on its belly; it had been attacked at the front end instead.

entrance

At the front entrance there are two wide door openings so access in and out is extremely good.

Police barricades were set up at the front entrance , and police cars occasionally circled the building.

As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.

Returning to the front entrance , he found Hendrix still waiting for her food, smoking yet another cigarette.

The steps at the front entrance were demolished and a ramp was constructed together with new steps.

They had been strictly segregated from the ladies and gentlemen who entered by the front entrance and walked on carpet.

She turned from the front entrance .

Flats with shared front entrances are not particularly desirable either, even if they do have entry phones fitted.

garden

The house was called Lilac Villa, a name no one used, though the front garden contained several ancient gnarled lilac bushes.

They disappeared into the front garden of one of the houses.

Soon we arrived at Tower House, a suburban-style dwelling with a large front garden .

The brick walls and paving of the front garden are clean and tidy, but rather harsh.

Mrs Grogan had seen a man half way up the sycamore tree in the Connons' front garden .

Remember your personal security when viewing front gardens .

Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road.

Michael and Geoffrey stood in the Griersons' front garden .

gate

In autumn a rowan tree at the front gate was showered with berries.

They locked the front gates of their Seoul home, my residence, and would not let me out.

Motor cycles will roar away from the front gates and, later, cars.

Every day seeing her husband and her boys approach the front gate .

Even more daunting is a flight of 5 steps to her front gate .

Once we had arrived at my place I parked the car and led Amanda through my front gate and up to the flat.

Myself, I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box.

lawn

Julie ambled happily down the long immaculate front lawn , bordered on each side by miniature fruit trees.

Outside, on the front lawn hoisted atop a wooden flagpole, an eternal blank check waves bravely in the breeze.

Not much to look at, because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles.

It too had its imposing front lawn and luxurious emptiness.

The long grass of the front lawns was luminous with golden bars of sunlight.

They were tearing up the playgrounds and tearing up the front lawns and the porches.

It's claimed the officers left these tyre marks on the front lawn ... and this typewritten note.

Nor could he be left alone anymore in the late afternoons when he insisted on watering the front lawn .

line

But the front line runs across Katanga, and the war cut people off from their fields, leaving them to starve.

Or his practice of filming in the front line , and even beyond the front line?

It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.

Warren Goss was among the Federals who were hugging the ground in the front lines .

We really were in the front line .

Guns increased in size and range during the war to enable targets far behind the front line to be hit.

He argued that these were the people on the front line .

Soldiers in front line , page 3.

man

Camera crews and their front men cruised the available space looking for celebrities to interview.

He must shed his spiky exoskeleton and become the front man .

And he showed he means to make goals a top priority with the £400,000 move for Rangers livewire front man Spencer.

He was a dynamic band leader and charismatic front man who sang and played saxophone, keyboard and percussion.

He was a good front man , but the real work was done by his team of four assistants.

Start with front man Pauly Fuemana, a New Zealander whose vocal style is almost as difficult to place as his accent.

The service to the front men was much slicker, forcing Charlton back.

Mr Clayton was simply a front man .

office

I would have to dress and make up in a small front office .

But the Negro Leagues, despite their many flaws, did have black owners, managers and front office people.

All others extensions can be dialled from the front office .

Which is why the front office felt it was just as crucial to find another dependable reliever as it was another starter.

The drive to integrate back and front office systems among tour and ferry operators is similarly driving revenues.

The front office deserves credit, too, for making the right trades at the right time.

The job can be particularly hectic for front office managers around check-in and check-out time.

Coaching and the front office have a lot to do with winning and losing, too.

page

This overflowed into front page news all over the world, even in papers which do not have a fashion page.

But two and a half years later he was front page news.

One day she wakes up, sees all that creepiness splashed across the front page .

He was summarily dismissed from his job and the scandal broke on the front pages of Britain's national press.

Then the New York stock market crashed, and I got pushed off the front pages .

The specialist brochures should have a suitable front page which relates to the interests of the target group.

passenger

In the front passenger seat, the Campbell.

Storage space for front passengers is skimpy, limited to door pockets and a small center console.

Stopped at traffic lights, he glanced down at the envelope lying in the shadows on the front passenger seat.

Her friend Maya McGhee, also 16, was in the front passenger seat.

As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.

The front passenger could do with sturdy grab rail on the dash.

Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind.

The central locking didn't secure or unlock the front passenger door and all the locks felt rather stiff and gritty.

porch

The front porch was added in 1751 after the Springetts had had enough of the south-westerly winds.

Ellie McGlynn was there, standing by herself on the front porch .

He glared at Yanto with genuine dislike as he stomped through the front porch of the pub.

So Johnny Appleseed lay down on the front porch and went to sleep.

The front porch which has various door openings gives excellent room for cooking and storing the rest of your gear.

She was on the front porch , with Oxie and Fogarty still on the sofa.

The front porch has various door openings with room to shelter when cooking and to store gear.

The roof leaked, and the front porch was falling off.

room

It was a sight as familiar to me as my own front room .

There in the front room were our chairs lined up in a straight row, just as Mandon had placed them.

I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room .

He went quickly through the house to the front room and drew back the curtains.

The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.

Roland Major sat in the middle of the front room that had already been cleaned and refused to help.

Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps.

Alice said a quick hello and tried to hurry into the front room , but Duvall called her back.

row

Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger.

He knew he could abuse the front row as much as he wanted.

He walked without hesitation to the very front row , sat down and lay back, gazing up at the screen.

Hector sits in the back seat of the front row , nearest the door.

Assuming he is fit, he will again share the front row of the grid with his Williams team-mate, Riccardo Patrese.

They would sit there in the front row .

The caption alongside notes that George Davies, aged 19, is in the front row on the far right.

Out of deference to me, and for the eventual eradication of our corneas, we sat in the absolute front row .

runner

The new front runner is New Zealand, co-hosts of the inaugural 1987 World Cup.

During the fourth round he wavered, the way tournament-long front runners invariably do.

Members might like to note that Crich is a front runner for next summer's trip.

Wild Bill Clinton shows he's a real front runner when tackling the big issues.

The consensus seemed to be emerging: it was an open race but Samuel was clearly the front runner .

The front runners will, therefore, be zones charges by distance or time and congestion metering.

Aunt May is only the front runner .

seat

No bush was present on either front seat buckle of G-AYIH.

The two that were in the front seats are alive.

Dominating the space between the two front seats are two grey painted wooden vertical wheels with chunky cut-outs around their periphery.

There was a driver in the front seat .

He fell back across the front seats and started being sick.

Then he sat his boxed bear on the front seat beside him and went for a drive.

Soon Professor Cousins himself was snoring in the front seat .

Mike was driving, and Penny was in the front seat .

tooth

A gleam of light showed its crossed front teeth .

He was missing two front teeth , and his hair was cut short in a burr.

You could dig for ever and you wouldn't come up with enough gold to fill your front teeth in.

His four front teeth are through and two more in the upper jaw are pressing.

A raisin lodged unattractively between Heather's front teeth but I chose not to tell her about it.

One of his top front teeth is missing, and there are wide spaces between the others.

Breathe slowly and rhythmically, pressing the tip of your tongue against the back of your upper front teeth .

Mr Hendricks ordered until Billy opened his mouth, revealing the black gap of a missing front tooth .

wheel

So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel .

The front wheels threw fist-sized pieces of prairie through the windows.

He let go the clutch, lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank, sand-spit dead ahead.

On our way to Montana our right front wheel come off and we were stranded on the road most all that day.

I distinctly remember seeing a few of the eggs hitting the spokes of his front wheel as he slowed down.

A stone had been dislodged by the front wheel and had punctured our diesel tank.

There should not be any grease in the front wheel bearings, they are lubricated with the oil in the swivel housings.

The pedals were fitted with toe-traps, which ensured that I landed chin first in whatever caused the front wheel to skid.

window

The sun was brilliantly mirrored in the front windows .

Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills, but the window above my bed butted the neighbour's garage.

Between the front windows was a small mahogany table, over which hung a matching mirror.

I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window .

Indeed, as we draw closer, our information is confirmed by the chipped and faded lettering on the front window .

His deviousness and dishonesty were in the front window for all to see.

So I shall have to slip into my flat by the front window .

yard

The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.

Lost Jaguar and butterflies Next door, Steve Fischer waded through his front yard .

Old bicycles and a long-disused pram are scattered across the muddy front yard .

The guy was standing knock-kneed in his front yard holding a quarter chicken by the end of the drumstick.

This generation fed on the advertisement-ridden local paper, thick as a book, which was tossed daily on to their front yards .

And the minute she saw the dress and shoes sitting in the front yard , she broke water.

But camped out in their front yard , so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.

The third woman went to pull a weed in her front yard and a rattler bit her hand.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

back to front

Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.

You've got your sweater on back to front.

And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?

But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?

I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.

It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.

Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.

Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.

The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.

They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.

dangle sth in front of sb/before sb

front/rear/back wheels

in the front line

It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.

Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?

She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.

They were sitting in the front line of chairs.

We really were in the front line.

make the papers/headlines/front page etc

And the story made the front pages.

Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.

Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.

out front

But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.

Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.

I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.

I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.

Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?

That the police chief was parked out front?

There was some kind of commotion out front.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He leaned across the front seat of the car and grabbed her arm as she tried to get out.

Laura always sits in the front row at the movies.

The dog rested its head on its front paws.

There was a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn.

There was a large picture of Bush on the front page of the evening newspaper.

You should have knocked on the front door.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A year earlier, he qualified on the front row of the F1 grid in a Formula Two Matra.

First, we pass a couple of wooden family motels, complete with front porch parked up with juggernauts.

For years its front door remained locked.

I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window.

Jump diagonally back with the rear foot and perform a front foot roundhouse kick.

Teague crawled into the front seat and sat on my lap.

The key to the front door was tied on to a little ribbon pinned into my pocket.

III. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

band

He'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band .

There is certainly no evidence that Steven Morrissey ever considered himself capable of fronting a band in these wilderness years.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

back to front

Dan appeared in jeans, wearing his cap backward as usual.

You've got your sweater on back to front.

And can you fool them, by planting them back to front?

But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person?

I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs.

It was all wrong and back to front, but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage.

Papers are missing from each and the sheets inside have been turned back to front, and at angles.

Row 1: Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked.

The crowd was crammed shoulder to shoulder and back to front on the shrinking piece of roadway.

They're boys' hips, girls' hips, front to front, back to front.

front/rear/back wheels

in the front line

It would be like having all our soldiers in the front line at the same time.

Or his practice of filming in the front line, and even beyond the front line?

She is trapped in the front line on the killing streets of Western Sarajevo.

They were sitting in the front line of chairs.

We really were in the front line.

out front

But then that funny copper, Malpass, had known I'd been out front on Sunday.

Her flowers out front may have changed but little else has, it would appear.

I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall.

I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out.

Should they stop because the people out front were drowning everything coming from the stage?

That the police chief was parked out front?

There was some kind of commotion out front.

put on a brave face/front

He was shattered, though he put on a brave face.

I suppose parents have to put on a brave face.

Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face.

Meanwhile, Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week's devastating floods.

Newspaper staff put on a brave face.

No one said a word all of us were consciously putting on a brave face.

Whether in denial or putting on a brave face, the delegates professed to be unperturbed by those numbers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Genesis was originally fronted by Peter Gabriel.

The Hyatt hotel fronts a beach called Shipwreck.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He is set to front a new rescue package, with a mystery backer ready to invest a substantial sum.

The city would have to front a mere $ 9 million or so to implement the plan.

Through a scattering of gray adobe houses, all identical, I would go to the house fronted with mulberry trees.

When you stepped out of hiding and fronted me, this same face looked over your shoulder.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.