Example sentences for: frontier

How can you use “frontier” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We treat that question at length in our book, relating the observation to theories at the frontier of the branch of economics known as "Industrial Organization," but here is a hint: The simplest textbook model of the perfectly competitive firm doesn't do a great job of describing the companies that have driven the market higher and higher.

  • They moved on into the Ganga valley when other nomads, the Yueh-chi from Central Asia, swept across the frontier.

  • Hungary remained beyond the reach of western Europe until the first century a.d., when the Roman empire’s legions advanced and pushed its northeast frontier to the Danube.

  • He returned to Babylon, leaving a few governors on the frontier.

  • But both northern Honshu — which is more commonly known as “Tohoku” — and the northernmost island of Hokkaido offer the advantage of unspoiled countryside and friendly down-to-earth villagers still imbued with something of a frontier spirit.


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