How to Use front-runner in a Sentence

front-runner

noun

• Meryl Davis Meryl Davis was the front-runner on the show's 18th season from the get-go.
  — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
• This set is bound to be a front-runner at the gift exchange.
  — Kelsey Fredricks, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2024
• Rule 5 Draft pick Matt Sauer is a front-runner for the final spot.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The Bear has been an awards season front-runner this year.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• The list is made up of 25 players who are front-runners for the Wooden Award.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
• If the front-runner is to be taken down, someone will have to do it.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• By the end of the festival, the movie wins the Palme and Madison is a front-runner for Best Actress.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
• However, the front-runner in the bidding to build the system is.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• Brody has won best actor at most awards shows and is seen as the front-runner to take the Oscar on March 2.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2025
• Justyn Martin are the front-runners to start next season.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2025
• All along, the Dodgers were seen as front-runners, if not outright favorites, to land Ohtani.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• And, following the Giants’ upset of the Colts, there’s a new front-runner for the No. 1 pick in next spring’s draft.
  — Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• For much of the year, Rubio and Gonzalez were viewed as front-runners.
  — Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Isaiah Wynn is expected to be the front-runner to start at left guard.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• A lot of other Democrats did as well, making her clearly the front-runner.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
• That gives us very little clarity as to who the Best New Artist front-runner is.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
• The team is a front-runner for this year’s gold medal, of which Biles already has four from previous Olympics.
  — Julia Teti, WWD, 30 July 2024
• And yet, the front-runner in the Republican Party says that.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2023
• From the day that Steve Clifford stepped down and ended his second run as the Hornets’ head, Lee has been thought to be the front-runner.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 9 May 2024
• No decision’s been made, but a front-runner has emerged: Jack.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Andrews, a sophomore, appears to be the early front-runner to start at point guard but could be pushed by Vide.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The project was launched and is being built while Trump is the front-runner for a second presidency.
  — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 5 June 2024
• Yeah, well, there's a difference between is and odd (ph) and what is right now is Donald Trump is the front-runner.
  — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• With the fall film festivals over, is there an Oscar front-runner?
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
• Thanks in large part to genetic studies in the 1980s, one theory emerged as the clear front-runner.
  — Michael F. Hammer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
• Texas is handedly the front-runner for book challenges, the ALA found, with 1,120 titles challenged so far this year, the most of any state.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• And at this point, like Donna said, Donald Trump is the prohibitive front-runner in the polling.
  — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Week 4 will go down as the episode that solidified the three front-runners, and then upended it all.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 July 2024
• An hour later, the front-runner walked out with the group’s unanimous blessing after some in the crowd had chanted his name.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
• Despite the acclaim of other top players this season, Jokic could - and perhaps should - be the front-runner for MVP again, which would be his fourth time earning the honor.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025