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How to use frontage in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Frontage means the front part of a property or building that faces the street. Example: “It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.”

Examples of frontage by meaning

nounThe front part of a property or building that faces the street.

  • It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter I, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 5

nounProperty or territory adjacent to a body of water.

  • It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.2016 May 25, The Chronicle Herald

nounThe front part generally.

  • War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

nounA woman's breasts.

  • I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.2008, Lynn Veach Sadler, Not Dreamt of in Your Philosophy, page 134

nounA front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.

  • Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.1963 [2006], Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 95

More sentences with frontage

  • It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining.1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Coley Branch, G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 317. From the entry wharfage
  • The Olympic Toy Emporium occupied a conspicuous frontage in an important West End street.1919, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Morlvera”, in R[othay] R[eynolds], editor, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers. […], London…. From the entry emporium
  • The shore here is dense with Great Bulrushes, and other rushes, too; Mary says four kinds thrive along her lake frontage.2004, Mary Blocksma, Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry great bulrush
  • The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 131. From the entry gargoyle
  • Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone.1905, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters, page 375. From the entry hammochrysos
  • Meanwhile, all the malchicks in the gang had turned to clock her, and with the frontages they had it wasn’t easy to distinguish them from the rest.2009, Wu Ming [pseudonym; Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Luca Di Meo, Federico Guglielmi, Riccardo Pedrini], translated by Shaun…. From the entry malchick
  • The Batavia channels might seem incapacious for the volume of water that would be contributed by so large a drainage area and from so long a frontage of melting glacier.1907, H.L. Fairchild, “Glacial Waters in the Lake Erie Basin”, in New York State Museum Bulletin, page 40. From the entry incapacious

Meaning of frontage

  1. noun The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
  2. noun The land between a property and the street.
  3. noun The length of a property along a street.

Full definition of frontage

Questions about frontage in a sentence

How do you use frontage in a sentence?
Frontage is used as a noun. For example: “It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.”
What is a short sentence with frontage?
“War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.”
What does frontage mean?
Frontage means the front part of a property or building that faces the street.

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