How to Use front burner in a Sentence

front burner

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  • So, yeah, all those things are on the front burner now.
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Perhaps this could move to the front burner for Poles in the late spring or summer.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • These days, thanks to a decades-long decline in sperm counts, such concerns have moved to the front burner.
    — Judith Finlayson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • And then came rheumatoid arthritis, which took her off the front burner for years.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • On the front burner, for now, however, is the Clark shooting.
    — NBC News, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Free agency remains on the front burner for the Cowboys.
    — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
  • But in recent days there’s been a steady flow of news coming out of the kingdom that would suggest the IPO is once again on the front burner.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The summer camps and the Pollinator Palooza are just two of the programs currently on the front burner.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 7 June 2022
  • By raising Jerusalem as an issue, Trump put it back on the front burner of the region’s politics.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Reversing the anti-worker trends of the postwar years must be on Biden’s front burner.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Sure, Sang-hyeon, who runs a hand laundry, and cohort Dong-soo, who works at said church, could use the dough; times are tight and, on the front burner, Sang-hyeon is in hock to the local mob.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Since then, his dispute with the Lions over money has become front burner.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But losses suffered this year will keep this topic on the front burner of every sports franchise.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Still, Biden's advisers have strategically mapped out ways to keep the issue on the front burner.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
  • As the league searches for new revenue, the issue of expansion has gotten more air time in league circles, though Silver said it’s not on the front burner for the NBA.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Russia rarely receded from the front burner throughout the summit.
    — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Vanessa Guillén last year, a death that put the risks to women in uniform on the front burner of policy-making at the Pentagon and in Congress.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2021
  • It was nestled among condiments on the counter and his fingertips got barely past the front burner, where an empty frying pan waited to be greased.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • But for now there’s not even room for it on the front burner as lawmakers, just back from a five-week summer recess, face a series of more immediate tasks.
    — Erica Werner, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The challenges after that month of media exposure, then Congress has moved on to now dealing with tax policy and other issues, and this is kind of gone off the front burner.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 6 Oct. 2018
  • Fire investigators determined one of the occupants of the apartment was cooking french fries on the stove when the grease spilled out of the skillet and onto the front burner, Reith said.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The setback for Biden’s social spending bill, his administration’s focus in the final months of 2021, explains at least in part why the White House is shifting voting rights to the front burner.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • History is taking a place on the front burner of the national conversation.
    — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • Lawsuits claiming misbehavior by Google and Facebook promise to keep this topic on the front burner.
    — Editorial Board New York Times, Star Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Whitmer's agreement to take road funding off the front burner complicates other aspects of her budget plan.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2019
  • Later this morning, Luna moves into playful Leo and makes a supportive angle to Mercury, urging us to put fun on the front burner.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Communications get a lot easier, computers work again and projects move to the front burner.
    — SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
  • The pandemic put schools squarely on the front burner this election cycle, both with the upheavals caused by closures and the scrutiny that virtual learning brought to classrooms.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • And while there was outside speculation in the late winter that the Bears might cut Graham to clear needed salary-cap space, those discussions were never on the front burner inside Halas Hall.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2021
  • The conservative American bishops are largely out of step with Francis and his agenda of putting climate change, migrants and poverty on the church’s front burner.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 14 June 2021

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