How to Use front bench in a Sentence

front bench

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  • He challenged the views of his party's front bench.
  • Johnson sat on the front benches, in the middle of it all.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Powell was sacked from the Tories’ front bench—and still does.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • There's loads of room on the front bench for the driver and right-seat passenger.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 12 June 2020
  • The Ram's wide front bench makes sitting three across easier than it's been since the '70s.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The issue even prompted a shake-up of the Liberal front bench this summer.
    — Kait Bolongaro, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Put the steering wheel in the middle of a front bench seat on my six-wheel-drive convertible pickup.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The current Tory front bench is a row of exhausted molehills.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Mrs May’s successor now stands accused of misogyny on the front bench.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • In the left foreground of the work Sotheby’s is selling, for instance, a seated chimp on the front bench holds a banana curved downward; in the 2009 version the banana is turned up.
    — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The interior eschews bucket seats and console in favor of a front bench seat, the better to show off the novelty of the car's flat floor.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Other choices include front bench or bucket seats, the full range of Ram drivetrains and either a 5-foot, 7-inch or 6-ft, 4-inch bed.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The option of what is effectively a fold-up jumpseat in the front means the 90 can carry six passengers—all hail the return of the front bench seat—although anyone in the middle up front will have to bend their knees around the dashboard console.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 29 Oct. 2020
  • But hey—cars and romance have a rich and storied intertwined history, from the days when most vehicles came with front bench seats and voluminous back seat playgrounds.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • With an impressive front bench, a strong spread of candidates, youthful support and a good ground game, Sinn Fein is formidable on paper, yet a number of factors seem to be holding it back.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Ford also says the option is available in models equipped with a front bench seat; in this configuration, the middle seatback folds to create a console, and the top of that console can slide out and rotate to create the table.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 June 2020
  • Sohel took a grim satisfaction in watching the manager clamber up onto the front bench seat, his dignity ruffled.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021

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