Example Sentences

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“This is not just a situation of high-profile celebrities who are fronting the cause.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Zoldos, the other council members and a few private citizens are fronting the cost on behalf of the town.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2018

They are fronting the money for the lawsuit, and in doing so they most definitely escalated the situation by giving a teen an opportunity to have a day in court she doesn’t need.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2014

Two of the City's most eminent grandees are fronting the company that will target banks controlled by the government.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2010

If we were obliged to explain the phenomena of matter only, some theory might be plausibly maintained; fronting one world we might understand it, but we are fronting two worlds.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson