forehead

as in front
a forward part or surface the forehead of the ancient temple features a frieze of dramatically posed figures

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Recent Examples of forehead The toddler kept covering her face with her hands in a specific way, with her middle finger over her eye and her index finger across her forehead. Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025 Bangs must be cut above the eyebrows and be longer than the middle of the forehead. Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 Ash Wednesday this year – one of the most somber celebrations in the Catholic calendar, marking the beginning of Lent – saw a flurry of videos posted by Gen Z showing off their ashy foreheads. Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025 Sweat dripping from her forehead to the corpse. Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for forehead
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Noun
  • At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
  • For a Buffs front that struggled to stop the run against its heavyweight opponents so far in Georgia Tech and Houston, CU can’t let Harris break free for big gains or consistently rip off chunk runs that keep the ‘Pokes in the game.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido, a 1908 Moorish fantasy commissioned by entrepreneur Nicolò Spada, boasts Byzantine domes and an eclectic façade that have sheltered everyone from Winston Churchill to Erroll Flynn, from Greta Garbo to Clark Gable.
    Jenn Rice, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The industry groups also dismissed Shein’s partnership with French retailer Pimkie as a facade to provide legitimacy to the Chinese giant.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Forehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forehead. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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