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IN FRONT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or in the front
Example:
with the cross of Jesus marching on before
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Context examples:
The mate, Johansen, stood away several feet to the side of him, and fully three yards in front of him sat Wolf Larsen on one of the pivotal cabin chairs.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Godalming behind and Quincey in front stood just out of sight ready to move in front of the window.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Dave had bitten through both of Sol-leks’s traces, and was standing directly in front of the sled in his proper place.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
When an object transits, or passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the space telescope, a dip in starlight is recorded.
(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)
Denoting the area of the body in front and away from the middle line.
(Anterolateral, NCI Thesaurus)
As he spoke he whirled the covering from the object in front of him and showed to their horror that it was a newly-severed human leg.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And, as it happened, I was very soon to have another peep at it, for a most unexpected event befell us as we drew up in front of the Crown hotel.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then you will return in front of him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A cavity within the subarachnoid space in front of the lamina terminalis.
(Lamina Terminalis Cistern, NCI Thesaurus)
There are 2 parotid glands, one in front of and just below each ear.
(Malignant Parotid Gland Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)
