Examples of face-first in a Sentence
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When there’s no money for date nights, no buffer for impulse purchases and no tolerance for risky decisions, couples are forced to confront their differences face-first.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
These characters are faced with death frequently, so the idea of throwing themselves face-first into inevitable death – after having watched for decades as expeditioners left and never returned – is second-nature.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Middleton went face-first into the boards and collapsed in a heap.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
However, Naz doesn’t expect Aziza to be pulled face-first into his family drama, altering their friendship and the Jaspers’ lives forever.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
But with Gascón’s posts, that fiction — and all marketing pushes are, on some level, fiction — has run face-first into reality.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
The move involves locking the opponent's arms behind their back, positioning their head between the legs, and then jumping to slam the opponent face-first into the ground.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Malkin was cross-checked into the goal post, face-first, by Ben Chiarot in the second period.
—Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
On the hit, Hurts’ helmet slammed face-first into the ground.
—Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
These characters are faced with death frequently, so the idea of throwing themselves face-first into inevitable death – after having watched for decades as expeditioners left and never returned – is second-nature.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Middleton went face-first into the boards and collapsed in a heap.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
However, Naz doesn’t expect Aziza to be pulled face-first into his family drama, altering their friendship and the Jaspers’ lives forever.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
But with Gascón’s posts, that fiction — and all marketing pushes are, on some level, fiction — has run face-first into reality.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
The move involves locking the opponent's arms behind their back, positioning their head between the legs, and then jumping to slam the opponent face-first into the ground.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Malkin was cross-checked into the goal post, face-first, by Ben Chiarot in the second period.
—Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
On the hit, Hurts’ helmet slammed face-first into the ground.
—Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Face-first.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/face-first. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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