fronting

"The house is fronting the park, offering a beautiful view. "

"The classroom building fronts the playground. "

"Example:

"Instead of avoiding the problem, she decided she needed to start fronting it and find a solution." "

"She was fronting her scrapbook with colorful stickers. "

"The speech therapist explained that the child was fronting his /k/ sounds, making them sound like /t/ sounds. "

"Instead of saying "He ate the apple," we can emphasize the apple by fronting it: "The apple, he ate." "

"He was fronting for his friend, claiming he was sick when he was actually at the beach. "

""She is fronting the school's campaign to raise money for new computers." "

"The company is fronting the employees' travel expenses for the conference. "

"He was fronting when he said he knew how to fix the car; he clearly had no idea what he was doing. "

"He's just fronting about being rich; he still lives with his parents and drives an old car. "

"to front court"

"The linguist explained that fronting of the /u/ sound in words like "blue" is common in some dialects, where it's pronounced closer to the front of the mouth. "

""The student's phonetics paper on vowel alternations included an example of fronting in a particular dialect, where the /u/ sound in 'boot' sometimes becomes closer to an /i/ sound depending on surrounding words." "

""The linguistics professor discussed vowel fronting in some regional dialects, explaining how the /u/ sound, as in 'goose,' is pronounced further forward in the mouth compared to standard English." "

"The teacher explained that fronting like "This I know" instead of "I know this" is used for emphasis in writing. "

"His constant boasting about his non-existent wealth was clearly just fronting to impress the new girl at school. "