Sentence examples for was frontier from inspiring English sources
noun
That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
("Buffalo was once the Wild, Wild West," he said of the outfit. "It was frontier").
Throughout the 20th century, sound was frontier terrain, staked out by crazies and visionaries: pro-violence Futurists, war-addled Dadaists and out-there beings like Antonin Artaud.
The procedure was "frontier surgery," he said — perhaps the final horizon in a field that is being surpassed by genetics and other, more exotic disciplines.
But I couldn't get to it because it was frontier territory for my country and as forbidden as the Berlin Wall.
(Johnson) Museum of Modern Art: 'Soundings: A Contemporary Score' (through Nov. 3) Throughout the 20th century, sound art was frontier terrain, staked out by crazies and visionaries: pro-violence Futurists, war-addled Dadaists and out-there beings like Antonin Artaud.
(Smith) Museum of Modern Art: 'Soundings: A Contemporary Score' (through Nov. 3) Throughout the 20th century, sound art was frontier terrain, staked out by crazies and visionaries: pro-violence Futurists, war-addled Dadaists and out-there beings like Antonin Artaud.
Frontier living is frontier living.
Twain was the sound of a new America: it wasn't backwoods humor, and it wasn't city-slicker humor; it was frontier-town humor, the jokes of a guy who doesn't live in the big town but knows everything that goes on in a bordello, the wise guy from over the back fence.
"This is frontier stuff," he said.
We were frontier kids, dirty all summer.
Jack Fritscher: Boundaries are frontiers.
