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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
front-page
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a front-page article
▪ The protest followed a front-page article in the Herald three weeks ago.
a front-page headline
▪ The newspaper's front-page headline read simply 'Prime Minister resigns'.
a front-page story
▪ The Times published a front-page story about the scandal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
article
▪ On March 16, a front-page article in the Transcript reported that an explosion on the seal steamer Viking had killed twenty-five.
news
▪ If she knew that each of these unhappy events would be international front-page news she would be even more upset.
▪ Soon, the desegregation of education became front-page news again and forced the Kennedy administration to respond with force.
▪ The media besiege him, and his views are front-page news.
▪ If even one of the cited companies faltered, even though it might later spring back, it became front-page news.
▪ The war was no longer front-page news.
▪ It became the stuff of front-page news.
▪ It must have made front-page news.
▪ Her presence was enough to make front-page news.
story
▪ A front-page story about the Owens letter also was published.
▪ Connections' inaugural issue featured a front-page story by Scott Forman about growing up feeling different and excluded in a sighted world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If even one of the cited companies faltered, even though it might later spring back, it became front-page news.
▪ If she knew that each of these unhappy events would be international front-page news she would be even more upset.
▪ Soon, the desegregation of education became front-page news again and forced the Kennedy administration to respond with force.
▪ The war was no longer front-page news.

Usage examples of "front-page".

It was front-page news in the evening papers and at the close of business the Treasury had got on to Vallance and told him the extraordinary news that the selling wave had been started by Drax Metals Ltd.

At least the kid would get a front-page byline, which might be enough to change his mind about law school.

The investigation, indictment and prosecution of Cleo Rio generated thirteen front-page articles in the Union-Register, all of them written by me.

In a front-page editorial of the leading opposition daily, Craton Starbridge announced the formation of a new political party, a coalition of reactionary and progressive Starbridge elements, unified by a new political agenda.

Several papers are running front-page stories about crashing Southeast Asian currencies, but this isn’t all that new.

The newspapers carried front-page stories and photographs of lynchings in the South, child labour in factories.

The rest is history: reporters and photographers arrived at the Lilac View Motel shortly after the deputies, McPherson became front-page news and on Tuesday Ellis Loew was elected city district attorney by a landslide.

Bleakly Kingsbury thought of front-page headlines and multimillion-dollar lawsuits and minimum-security prisons with no driving range.

Thursday's story was front-page, above the fold, with the banner headline: DNA, NEW EVIDENCE RAISE POSSIBILITY STRANGLER HAS GENETIC DEFECT Abby's byline was nowhere to be found.

The greatest concentration of the chemical bomb (hydrogen sulfide: ingeniously implanted in the building's basement ventilating system) was at the front of the auditorium where the eighty-nine graduating seniors, their teachers and school district administrators were seated By the time the Patriot-Ledger printed its front-page article on the mysterious event, two days later, declaring in broad headlines STINK BOMB DISRUPTS MT.

His name had been front-page news as he'd raced his way through the Grand Prix circuit.

Two days later, the Boston Globe ran a front-page story called ``The Little Swimmer That Could.

DNA, NEW EVIDENCE: SERIAL KILLER MAY HAVE METABOLIC DISORDER If he truly did have maple syrup urine disease, the front-page story ought to knock him off his feet.

I could see the headline: DNA, NEW EVIDENCE: SERIAL KILLER MAY HAVE METABOLIC DISORDER If he truly did have maple syrup urine disease, the front-page story ought to knock him off his feet.

A couple hundred motor cops coming in in procession on curving Valley Circle Boulevard always made a good front-page photo.