FRONTIER in a Sentence

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45 example sentences for FRONTIER, such as:

1. The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.
2. Lille is close to the frontier between France and Belgium.
3. The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
4. Neither country would guarantee the integrity of their common frontier.
5. The new frontier of medical knowledge is being pushed forwards as time goes on.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRONTIER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frontier
 n.  part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; border, confine, or extreme part of a country
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  The Yankees are recruiting men for frontier service to fight the Indians, recruiting them from among Confederate prisoners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  The town was roaring--wide open like a frontier village, making no effort to cover its vices and sins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  She saw Main Street in the dusty prairie sunset, a line of frontier shanties with solemn lonely people waiting for her, solemn and lonely as an old man who has outlived his friends.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  In every frontier settlement there are men who have come there to escape restraint.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
5  In short, any eye at all practised in the signs of a frontier warfare might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attend an Indian vengeance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
6  The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed Thuin, and only halted at the frontier.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
7  Then he passed to the frontier of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col de Tende with Joubert.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
8  Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
9  On forming our little Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never cross.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
10  Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates the geographical frontier.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
11  Caderousse was, like Fernand, enrolled in the army, but, being married and eight years older, he was merely sent to the frontier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
12  Fernand was enrolled in the active troop, went to the frontier with his regiment, and was at the battle of Ligny.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
13  Your father did not hesitate an instant, and the sum was sent to the frontier of Piedmont, with a passport signed for Italy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
14  To Brussels, if you like; it is the nearest frontier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 97. The Departure for Belgium.
15  Its name is known to God alone, but at least it was to be procured only in the immediate neighbourhood of the frontier.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  Lille is close to the frontier between France and Belgium.
2  Neither country would guarantee the integrity of their common frontier.
3  The incident on the frontier touched off a major war.
4  There have been large - scale military manoeuvres on the frontier.
5  The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
6  The new frontier of medical knowledge is being pushed forwards as time goes on.