How to Use the home front in a Sentence

the home front

noun

• End of carousel How does this translate on the home front?
  — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Of course, rumors weren’t just a problem on the home front.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Before that, though, things were a bit hectic on the home front.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2024
• Bread rationing marked the depths of sacrifices on the home front.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2024
• Getting it straight on the home front can be hard today.
  — USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• On the home front, plenty of big-ticket items are marked down, like this Casper mattress.
  — Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• The unit was responsible for delivering mail from the home front to the troops fighting in Europe.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• In this case, officials were tutored by SVB on how to use banking to spark innovation on the home front.
  — John Engen, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2023
• So get ready for expansive moves either on the home front, family life or in other ways that open up close connections.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• Ultimately, the evidence of the environmental and health problems caused by the pesticide won the day — at least on the home front.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 6 July 2023
• Amid the national attention and appearances on Fox News and other right-wing media, Youngkin wobbled on the home front.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• On the home front, the state council would begin to demilitarize Russia, reducing the size of the armed forces and by extension the cost of their maintenance.
  — Garry Kasparov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2023
• On July 27, the somber notes of a bugle call commemorated a milestone that often goes ignored on the home front: the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice.
  — Bobby Miller, National Review, 8 Aug. 2023
• Mercury and Venus will enter your sign on June 17, but a full moon in Capricorn on June 21 may bring emotional challenges, particularly in your relationships or on the home front.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
• In Maryland, there’s been progress on the home front, but not enough because energy companies and contractors are still pushing natural gas furnaces over electric heat pumps.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024
• On the home front, military families stationed at Fort Benning began receiving Western Union telegrams bearing news of the losses of these young husbands, fathers and sons.
  — Arin Yoon, New York Times, 14 May 2023
• Since support for the war is the status quo position in Europe, entrepreneurial politicians could focus on the home front and blame elites in capital cities and Brussels for caring more about Ukraine than about their own populations.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
• As Lincoln saw matters, their necessary absence from the home front now threatened national productivity—of civilian goods as well as war materiel.
  — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• On the home front, things are equally unsettled: Our hero comes home one day to find his mother has inexplicably vacated the premises for a two-week motel stay, leaving behind a cryptic note and a fortnight’s worth of precooked dinners.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• To mount the exhibit, the town’s historical society asked community members to share stories and material from their family members who served abroad or on the home front.
  — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• On the home front, a war declaration imbues the president with vast emergency authority over the economy, transportation, production, and legal foreign residents, authority that can make Americans nervous or give them postbellum regret.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024