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Example sentences for "fronts"

Lexicographically close words:
frontlet; frontlets; frontline; frontonasal; frontoparietal; froo; frore; frosen; frost; frostbite
  1. When I went down to the town again the very house-fronts seemed inhospitable, so that I must pass the time upon the quay.

  2. When we looked back of these dismal fronts and inquired more deeply into the work of the revolution we were convinced that the Russians have literally and completely done their job.

  3. If the Bolsheviki are ready to stop the forward movement of their troops on all fronts and to declare an armistice on all fronts, would we be willing to do likewise?

  4. It fronts one of the principal peaks which form the chain of the Col di Tende, which we contemplated as it caught the last rays of the evening sun, forming different guesses how we were to get up it.

  5. The two grand fronts are the north and west, the former of which is represented in Mr. Cooke's first engraving of Grignan.

  6. Within a few paces of the corner, facing on Main Street, and in the rear of the dwelling which fronts Chestnut Street, stood the small building that Jordan occupied as an office.

  7. The ghost of a garden fronts the sea, A girdle of brushwood and thorn encloses The -- square slope of the blossomless bed Where the weeds that grew green from the graves of its roses Now lie dead.

  8. The roof is of glass, and the shops, with fronts entirely of windows, are separated only by long mirrors, reaching in the shape of pillars from the roof to the floor.

  9. Under another section of the shed two placid little burros were dreamily blinking at vacancy, their grizzled fronts expressive of that ineffable peace found only in the faces of saints and donkeys.

  10. The iron fronts of the safes in the hall had not been tampered with.

  11. There is not a shadow of privacy in these tents, with open fronts and sides.

  12. With so wide a street, it would be as well to bring all house-fronts to the street line, completing this line with simple fences, and paying some attention to the ornamentation of the enclosed yards.

  13. The river runs white-capped and sparkling below; the wild tremendous fronts of rocky mountains, seared with ravines frowning with precipices and ragged with pines, close around.

  14. From the center of the plateau, such of these mountains as are visible appear insignificant hills when compared with their stupendous fronts and azure-lancing summits as seen from the contiguous valleys at the base of the Blue Ridge.

  15. Its fronts are gashed, on the east, south and north sides, by the headwaters of the Pigeon, Caney Fork and Richland.

  16. The foot-hills begin to roll higher, and with steep, stony fronts staring at each other across the intervening space of waters, resemble the severed halves of hills thus rent in twain by the impetuous river.

  17. The Smoky mountains present similar characteristics--richly wooded descents toward the central valley; rocky and sterile fronts toward Tennessee.

  18. The fronts of the sentinel mountains were somber in the shadows, while the gap was radiant with the light pouring through it, and every pine on the top of the palisade stood black against the glowing sky.

  19. Numerous new buildings, with fresh-painted or brick fronts have lately arisen in place, making striking contrasts with the old rookeries of fifty years existence standing here and there.

  20. A board fence fronts the neatly-kept lawn, on whose elevated center rises a two-story weather-beaten frame house.

  21. The eastern and southern fronts were built by Louis the Twelfth about the year 1520, the northern front was the work of Francis the First, and the western side of Gaston, duke of Orleans.

  22. The fronts are masonry: the small gardens which you see above, belong to these cottagers; many of them have moreover a cow, which they feed in the lanes and woods.

  23. The floor of snow, or rather frozen rain, was sprinkled with red dust, and fronts the wind, with sharp icy points rising at an angle of 45°.

  24. Here a perpendicular face of calcareous rock fronts a deep valley, backed by a rounded hill, with the blue chine of El Cumbre in the distance: this is the highest of the ridge, measuring 8,500 feet.

  25. Chronology of the War Showing Progress of Campaigns on All Fronts and Collateral Events from Oct.

  26. Many of the shop fronts were boarded up and shop windows were empty of display.

  27. Nothing in architecture can be conceived more beautiful than the principal entrance, which fronts the west, and which, at the time we saw it, was gilded with the rays of the setting sun.

  28. The church fronts the south, the portico being in that direction.

  29. It fronts the north, and stands in the midst of one of the most remarkable localities in the world, of which it would require a far more vigorous pen than mine to convey an adequate idea.

  30. The church fronts the west and contains the remains of a noble window, beneath which is a gate, which we found locked.

  31. I went to the Castle Inn which fronts the square or market-place, and being shown into a room ordered some brandy-and-water, and sat down.

  32. But while the fronts of the great war machine are thus held, they are never still.

  33. Early in March orders were issued by the 2nd Army Commander for the exchange of fronts between the V and the Canadian Corps.

  34. The outer fronts received somewhat less care at the hands of the native builders, and consequently less attention from modern visitors, being moreover much more seriously affected by the ravages of time and the elements.

  35. At the ends of this stairway, at o, o, are two large blocks similar in position to those at j, j, but their sloping fronts bear no sculptured figures.

  36. Its court facade was crowded with sculptured designs, grander, perhaps, and more imposing, but at the same time much less elegant and refined than those of the fronts already described.

  37. He now gazed more at the pavements and less at the house-fronts when he walked about; more at the feet and leggings of men, and less into the pupils of their eyes with the blazing regard which formerly had made them blink.

  38. No sooner did the deep notes of the bell throb between the house-fronts than a clatter of shutters arose through the whole length of the High Street.

  39. As the whole coastline of Liberia thus fronts the sea route from Europe to South Africa it is always likely to possess a certain degree of strategical importance.

  40. Then this great Gospel comes to us, and the Nazarene confidently fronts a world dimly conscious of its need, and sometimes miserable because it is bad, and says: 'Ho!

  41. Who is it that fronts humanity and says, 'He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me'?

  42. As early as February, 1918, the Arab and British fronts had been joined at the Dead Sea, and from then on had cooperated in the closest possible manner against the common enemy whom even German support was to avail nothing.

  43. Complete evacuation of all German troops within fifteen days from Italian and Balkan fronts and all Austro-Hungarian territory.

  44. Early in the afternoon the first phase of the attack was substantially over, and the readjustments of the fronts preparatory to the second phase were under way.

  45. Hooke invented the making of the fronts of teeth in a series of steps with a view to increase the smoothness of action.

  46. And round the Spanish Square the orange awnings protecting the empty shop-fronts shuddered and flapped, like a gay hat worn unsteadily when the stomach is empty.

  47. The garage gates turned to rods and bars of gold till the light left them, and the glare upon the house-fronts opposite travelled slowly down the street.


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