How to Use up-front in a Sentence

up-front

1 of 2 adjective

• Those helping Sandu would pay him an up-front fee to take part in the scheme.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
• The iconic jacket costs a lot up-front, but it can be repaired by the brand for life.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• To be sure, there are significant up-front costs to the IIPT approach.
  — Antje M. Barreveld, STAT, 16 May 2024
• Most people never make back the thousands of dollars of up-front fees.
  — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• In addition to the hefty up-front price tag, there is a monthly subscription fee to use the kit with an app.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
• This year, the best Memorial Day deals take the form of up-front discounts and lowered finance rates.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
• Dining with a large group: When dining with a large group of friends or colleagues, deciding how the bill will be split up-front is best.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Aug. 2023
• That means farmers, and their business partners, must cover up-front costs.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• There are also options like Epson’s EcoTank series that have a larger up-front cost but the ink can cost as little as $5 per year.
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
• The city of Mobile would have to take on about $1.3-1.6 million in up-front capital costs if any territory were to be annexed, the study notes.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• Many more will go to consumers able to afford the still considerable up-front costs of decarbonizing their homes and cars.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Despite the up-front costs, the benefits can be significant.
  — Pawan Vadapalli, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• The statement, instead, conflated the $350 million that the team has asked to provide up-front to build the $1 billion ballpark with the amount of money the tax would collect to the benefit of the team over those four decades.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Woods said he's still floored by the Ohtani-Dodgers deal and couldn't imagine ever advising a client to take so little up-front compensation.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The company is also up-front about some of the limitations of the technology.
  — John Werner, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Hence, city officials’ promise of a $16 million up-front handout.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
• Crianza may be the youngest designation of Rioja, but its youth is its strength for this pairing, the juicy and up-front flavors coming at the meal’s spice head-on.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
• But that inflow of up-front cash won’t reach Hadley, whose reimbursements come through the criminal justice system.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
• The Clippers were up-front with Westbrook before his signing in communicating that his role could change.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Because what happens after a store opens is just as important — and despite the up-front financial investments, that hasn’t been solved at all.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2024
• In exchange, Apple would provide the lab in Senegal with the up-front funding needed to carry out research and clinical trials.
  — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• For these events, the company or person can choose to rent the truck without flowers; rent the truck with flowers that can be sold to attendees; or rent the truck and pay for the flowers up-front to be given out to attendees for free.
  — Cheyenne Devon,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 18 July 2024
• Asset recovery scams are also known as advance fee fraud because the scam artist is charging an up-front fee for something that will never happen.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Amazon has committed to pay an up-front $5 million fee for each data center to offset the costs to the community of enabling its expansion.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• But hearing the character of their voices up-front is still bound to come as a revelation — maybe even to themselves, from the sound of it — after a couple of decades of complementarity.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
• Meta offers generated text options for advertisers, and LinkedIn offers them for users, but both require some up-front cues from users.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Doing this also gives them the ability to tell you up-front if something necessitates a separate follow-up.
  — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 3 Apr. 2024
• For example, Mayadev said, if a group used the money to buy a mobile clinic that could travel into rural areas to provide pregnant women with health care, that could get the ball rolling on a project that faces a large amount of up-front cost.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
• The city is now over the hump of having made big, up-front investments in properties and facilities, and the initiative will transition in 2025 to a more predictable program budget, Johnston said.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2024
• Railroads and other heavy industries required significant up-front capital—more than could be provided by small groups, even when the groups were very wealthy.
  — Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024

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up front

2 of 2 adverb

• Pop Rocks up front, with a mild hint of Tums on the finish.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• But the trade-off was that Brown gets a lot of it up front (52.6 percent).
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
• The game is going to be won up front one way or the other.
  — Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
• The Colts’ starters up front need the reserves to raise their level of play.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
• There’s also the effect of the clean air (and) staying up front.
  — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2022
• And the center also asked for $7,000 up front, the full amount of the Covens’ deductible.
  — Madison Muller, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2022
• The people sitting in the last row were just as hungry and thirsty as the fans up front.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Jordan Davis is a monster of a man and a space-eater up front.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2022
• Be sure to ask about the loan’s structure up front, Alexander says.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 5 Oct. 2023
• Sabin is in a corner up front by the office, hard at work.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• With the i3, BMW put it up front, lighter and more sustainable.
  — Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 8 July 2024
• Robert Taylor gets the nod up front with Messi and Suarez.
  — Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Rising on the keeper, good blocking up front, as was the case most of the night, Utah down a point.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• Adults will fit comfortably up front or in the back seat.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Nov. 2022
• Second-year coach Bryan Williams has the Griffins playing strong up front on both sides of the ball.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• The downside to the Colts offense Wednesday came up front.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2022
• Some tears were shed by fans up front by the barricade.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2023
• Unlike the Polestar 2, the 4 has a real set of cupholders and tons of storage space up front.
  — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• There is a cooler full of replacements up front in the cab.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Onboard, there are two chairs up front and bench seating for six at the back.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2022
• But up front, the entire front row, were kids head-banging.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2024
• With Bray running the defense, the Beavers will increase the pressure up front.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• In order to improve upon last year, the rest of the team needs to close the gap to the Papas brothers up front.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• The Bruins were bullied at times up front in a first-round loss to the Hurricanes.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• Knowles was up front earlier this spring that the Jack remains a work in progress.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
• And Cox noted that the Cats are trying to solve their issues up front with a new-look line.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2022
• That's the simplest way to avoid military conflict, is to be clear and firm up front.
  — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2022
• The confidence starts up front, with a line that’s anchored by Billings.
  — Phil Rogers, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• The situation up front is uncertain with all the key missing pieces.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
• Tempers and egos flared more frequently, with Taylor’s position up front as a focal point.
  — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024