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Frontier
"Frontier" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Many families left to make a new life on the frontier.
Many families went west to make a new life on the frontier.
The soldiers proceeded to the frontier with caution.
The soldiers headed for the frontier with caution.
Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
We crossed the frontier yesterday.
We admire the men who shaped our country, and rightfully so, the men we see as heroes -- from Alexander Hamilton to Muhammad Ali -- for their confidence and their courage in believing they could change our nation, this idea of self-creation, that there’s nothing holding us back. In them, we see America itself, constantly reinventing itself, fearless, looking out over the horizon at the next frontier.
In the 1880's, this was a harsh frontier town.
Frontier justice was swift.
My grandfather went to seek silver, but the silver became Indians. My grandfather went to seek Indians, but the Indians became gold. My grandfather went to seek gold, but the gold became earth. My grandfather went to seek land, but the land became a frontier. My grandfather, still intrigued, went to shape the frontier; and Brazil took the form of a harp.
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the frontier of civilization
There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.
From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.
Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to [exercise] undisputed control over the area.
But there is also real opposition to Nato expansion - and even to Nato's continued existence after the Cold War. This is a view shared by a very large part of Russia's military and foreign affairs establishment. Educated and trained during the Soviet period, they are still inculcated with notions of super-power military might. It has been painful for these people to see Nato's outer edge creep ever closer to what was once the frontier of the USSR.
The demise of “de minimis”, as the exemption is known, is the latest, symbolic reminder to digital darlings that frontiers exist—and that business models built on their absence are in need of a rethink.
Near-synonyms: vanguard, state of the art
the frontier of solid state electronics
thou hast talk'd. Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents, Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets
now that it is no more a Border, nor frontiered with Enemies, why should such Privileges be any more continued?
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