How to Use up-front in a Sentence

up-front

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Those helping Sandu would pay him an up-front fee to take part in the scheme.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The iconic jacket costs a lot up-front, but it can be repaired by the brand for life.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • To be sure, there are significant up-front costs to the IIPT approach.
    — Antje M. Barreveld, STAT, 16 May 2024
  • Most people never make back the thousands of dollars of up-front fees.
    — Cora Lewis, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In addition to the hefty up-front price tag, there is a monthly subscription fee to use the kit with an app.
    — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2023
  • This year, the best Memorial Day deals take the form of up-front discounts and lowered finance rates.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 28 May 2023
  • Dining with a large group: When dining with a large group of friends or colleagues, deciding how the bill will be split up-front is best.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Aug. 2023
  • That means farmers, and their business partners, must cover up-front costs.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There are also options like Epson’s EcoTank series that have a larger up-front cost but the ink can cost as little as $5 per year.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The city of Mobile would have to take on about $1.3-1.6 million in up-front capital costs if any territory were to be annexed, the study notes.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Many more will go to consumers able to afford the still considerable up-front costs of decarbonizing their homes and cars.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Despite the up-front costs, the benefits can be significant.
    — Pawan Vadapalli, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The statement, instead, conflated the $350 million that the team has asked to provide up-front to build the $1 billion ballpark with the amount of money the tax would collect to the benefit of the team over those four decades.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Woods said he's still floored by the Ohtani-Dodgers deal and couldn't imagine ever advising a client to take so little up-front compensation.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The company is also up-front about some of the limitations of the technology.
    — John Werner, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Hence, city officials’ promise of a $16 million up-front handout.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Crianza may be the youngest designation of Rioja, but its youth is its strength for this pairing, the juicy and up-front flavors coming at the meal’s spice head-on.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
  • But that inflow of up-front cash won’t reach Hadley, whose reimbursements come through the criminal justice system.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • The Clippers were up-front with Westbrook before his signing in communicating that his role could change.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Because what happens after a store opens is just as important — and despite the up-front financial investments, that hasn’t been solved at all.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In exchange, Apple would provide the lab in Senegal with the up-front funding needed to carry out research and clinical trials.
    — Christopher B. Barrett, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
  • For these events, the company or person can choose to rent the truck without flowers; rent the truck with flowers that can be sold to attendees; or rent the truck and pay for the flowers up-front to be given out to attendees for free.
    — Cheyenne Devon,tasia Jensen, CNBC, 18 July 2024
  • Asset recovery scams are also known as advance fee fraud because the scam artist is charging an up-front fee for something that will never happen.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Amazon has committed to pay an up-front $5 million fee for each data center to offset the costs to the community of enabling its expansion.
    — Mike Rogoway | [email protected], oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But hearing the character of their voices up-front is still bound to come as a revelation — maybe even to themselves, from the sound of it — after a couple of decades of complementarity.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Meta offers generated text options for advertisers, and LinkedIn offers them for users, but both require some up-front cues from users.
    — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Doing this also gives them the ability to tell you up-front if something necessitates a separate follow-up.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 3 Apr. 2024
  • For example, Mayadev said, if a group used the money to buy a mobile clinic that could travel into rural areas to provide pregnant women with health care, that could get the ball rolling on a project that faces a large amount of up-front cost.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
  • The city is now over the hump of having made big, up-front investments in properties and facilities, and the initiative will transition in 2025 to a more predictable program budget, Johnston said.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Railroads and other heavy industries required significant up-front capital—more than could be provided by small groups, even when the groups were very wealthy.
    — Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024
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up front

2 of 2 adverb
  • Pop Rocks up front, with a mild hint of Tums on the finish.
    — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
  • But the trade-off was that Brown gets a lot of it up front (52.6 percent).
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The game is going to be won up front one way or the other.
    — Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The Colts’ starters up front need the reserves to raise their level of play.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There’s also the effect of the clean air (and) staying up front.
    — Cole Cusumano, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2022
  • And the center also asked for $7,000 up front, the full amount of the Covens’ deductible.
    — Madison Muller, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The people sitting in the last row were just as hungry and thirsty as the fans up front.
    — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Jordan Davis is a monster of a man and a space-eater up front.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Be sure to ask about the loan’s structure up front, Alexander says.
    — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Sabin is in a corner up front by the office, hard at work.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
  • With the i3, BMW put it up front, lighter and more sustainable.
    — Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 8 July 2024
  • Robert Taylor gets the nod up front with Messi and Suarez.
    — Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Rising on the keeper, good blocking up front, as was the case most of the night, Utah down a point.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Adults will fit comfortably up front or in the back seat.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The Ravens need more talent up front, plain and simple.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Second-year coach Bryan Williams has the Griffins playing strong up front on both sides of the ball.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The downside to the Colts offense Wednesday came up front.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Some tears were shed by fans up front by the barricade.
    — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike the Polestar 2, the 4 has a real set of cupholders and tons of storage space up front.
    — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There is a cooler full of replacements up front in the cab.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Onboard, there are two chairs up front and bench seating for six at the back.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But up front, the entire front row, were kids head-banging.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 16 Sep. 2024
  • With Bray running the defense, the Beavers will increase the pressure up front.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In order to improve upon last year, the rest of the team needs to close the gap to the Papas brothers up front.
    — Joe Magill, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The Bruins were bullied at times up front in a first-round loss to the Hurricanes.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Knowles was up front earlier this spring that the Jack remains a work in progress.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2022
  • And Cox noted that the Cats are trying to solve their issues up front with a new-look line.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2022
  • That's the simplest way to avoid military conflict, is to be clear and firm up front.
    — CBS News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Take your own lawn chair or buy reserved seating up front at the show center.
    — Eric E. Harrison, arkansasonline.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Dyson’s bot has a unique design compare to other robovacs, putting its big, fluffy brush right up front to better reach edges and corners.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2024

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