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Example sentences for "fronted"

Lexicographically close words:
frontages; frontal; frontalis; frontals; fronte; frontem; fronteras; frontier; frontiers; frontiersman
  1. Upon the right and the left, I was walled in by large granite-fronted warehouses, crowded with the good things of this world.

  2. Her original intention had been to stroll down the avenue which fronted the house, in the hope of meeting the delivery wagon on the way.

  3. Along the side facing the entrance door, as well as that which fronted on the park, were big curtained windows, set in deep recesses, and between them, cases of books.

  4. For the time being his more active interest was in abeyance, lulled by the subtle, elusive phantom of grandeur suggested in the aloofness of this narrow street fronted by its square, skeleton, windowless houses through which the wind rattled.

  5. Others, again, whose grizzled beards showed them as men who had fronted foes in the battle of life, and were ready for another campaign.

  6. They may be “located” by describing them as lying a few miles inland from the north coast fronted by Mathuata Island.

  7. This region is fronted by mangrove swamps and is traversed by the Matasawalevu and Ndranimako streams.

  8. All the high islands appear to be fronted by distant reefs rising abruptly from the sea, and within some of which there is reason to believe that the water is deep.

  9. I will only add that no part of New Ireland appears to be fronted by distant reefs.

  10. The sea is very deep close to the shore, which is fronted by sharp coral-rocks.

  11. Followed by Serracauld and Barnard, they traversed the shadowy pathways and emerged upon an open space of lawn that fronted the house.

  12. Almost without volition, he passed from the stone-paved courtyard into the sweep of gravelled pathway that fronted the house.

  13. The White-fronted Goose visits Illinois only during its migrations, coming some time in October or early in November, and returning in March or April.

  14. The White-fronted Goose is greatly esteemed for the excellent quality of its flesh, which, by those who have learned to appreciate it, is generally considered superior to that of any other species.

  15. White-fronted or Laughing Geese are found in considerable numbers on the prairies of the Mississippi Valley.

  16. The floorways of the long basilica Fronted us with an angry multitude; And scornful eyes and threatening foreheads frowned In hundreds from the columned galleries.

  17. A quality of deadliness--of inexorable deadliness which could well have chilled the stoutest heart that fronted it.

  18. Fronted by Tarrano, in those few seconds of confusion, Georg made his decision to escape even at the cost of leaving Elza and me.

  19. Two were collected on Isla Cozumel and the several white-fronted doves seen on Isla Mujeres probably were of this species.

  20. Gaining clearer spaces, they ran, side by side, their faces curiously alike, stamped by the same exalted expression as they fronted the rising sun.

  21. It fronted on a wide street where new business buildings rose beside gabled houses, detached and disconsolate in the midst of withered lawns.

  22. Of course Weyanoke fronted upon the James, but our idea was to make a sort of back-door landing by running up this stream and in behind the plantation.

  23. The other formed the rear face, and moved also in line, turned to the right-about; but when halted and fronted it would face to the rear.

  24. The road is stone-paved at the feet of broken-fronted cliffs, dripping with icy water, green with mosses, or brown in nakedness of rock.

  25. So he followed a servant to the floor above where a smiling and very ornamental maid preceded him through a corridor and into that heavy wing of the house which fronted the sea.

  26. It was remarkable that these cries began in that quarter of the gaol which fronted Newgate street, where it was well known that the men who were to suffer death on Thursday were confined.

  27. You may find it in a description of a walk about New York in Chapter 6: "What is this dismal-fronted pile of bastard Egyptian, like an enchanter's palace in a melodrama?

  28. The venerable timber-fronted land projected with each successive story in advance of the lower one, after the fashion of that obsolete civic architecture in vogue before Newton had revealed his law of gravitation.

  29. The fine timber-fronted tenement at the corner of the Bowhead, constructed mainly of oak, was a choice example of the burghers’ dwellings in Old Edinburgh, with their trading booths opening on the street.

  30. At his suggestion they quit the wheel chair at a point well down the boardwalk to drink orangeades in a small glass-fronted café which faced the sea.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fronted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.