Sentence examples for before front from inspiring English sources

Gradually the use of the letter c to represent the velar before front vowels (for example, in the Middle English cyng) gave way to that of k, ambiguity being thus as far as possible avoided.

Velar stops k, g, and sk were palatalized before front vowels to merge with kj, gj, and skj, as still occurs in Icelandic (and Jutland dialect); in Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and many Danish dialects, these were fronted to tj, dj, and stj or even opened to spirants ç, j, and š, while in Danish they reverted to k, g, and sk.

Before front vowels resulting from ancient diphthongs, palatalized k' changed to a ts sound, written as c (e.g., Old Church Slavonic cěna 'price,' Serbian and Croatian cijèna, Russian cena, cognate to Lithuanian káina), and g' changed to a dz sound, which later changed to z (Old Church Slavonic [d]zelo 'very,' Old Czech zielo, Belarusian dialect do zěla, cognate to Lithuanian gaila).

Before front arms contacted with step, robot walks and adjusts arm position as the sequences in Figs. 7 and 9.

There was also the gradual softening of and [k] into [j] and the fricative before front vowels.

Broad (velar or velarized) consonants have a noticeable velar offglide (a very short vowel-like sound) before front vowels, which sounds like the English w but made without rounding the lips.

This follows perfectly from the phonotactic constraints of Mandarin /ʐ/, which is likewise not allowed before high front vowels and palatal glides.

"before, in front of;" (adv).

And even when he's grinding his hips before front-row patrons at eye level, you know that with Mr. Jackman there'll be no morning-after regrets or feelings of sleaziness.

It was Dave Grohl, who drummed in Nirvana before fronting the Foo Fighters, who summed up why this had happened.

Baker first made his name as a radio broadcaster in the late 1980s on GLR under Matthew Bannister, before fronting Morning Edition on the old BBC Radio 5 network.