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In the lead   /ɪn ðə lɛd/   Listen
In the lead

adjective
1.
Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.  Synonyms: ahead, leading.  "The leading team in the pennant race"
adverb
1.
Leading or ahead in a competition.  Synonyms: ahead, out front.  "Ahead by two pawns" , "Our candidate is in the lead in the polls" , "Way out front in the race" , "The advertising campaign put them out front in sales"






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"In the lead" Quotes from Famous Books



... their eagerness that they crept closer to the village, passing among some thick clusters of grapevines. Henry was in the lead, and he heard a sudden snarl. A large cur of the kind that infest Indian villages ...
— The Scouts of the Valley • Joseph A. Altsheler

... now in the lead with a small party, and he came upon the remains of several Indian camps formed of willow-brush, Traces of Indians became more ...
— First Across the Continent • Noah Brooks

... however, was I aboard the flagship than I attempted to rectify this trouble to some extent. By passing commands by word of mouth from one ship to another I managed to get the fifty feluccas into some sort of line, with the flag-ship in the lead. In this formation we commenced slowly to circle the position of the enemy. The dugouts came for us right along in an attempt to board us, but by keeping on the move in one direction and circling, we managed to avoid getting in each other's way, and were enabled to fire our cannon and our small ...
— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... had been sent on, and from those we took at Ana we received equally varying accounts. The cars had been ordered to push on in search of the colonel as long as sufficient gasolene remained to bring them back. Captain Todd with the Eighth Battery was in the lead when some thirty miles north of Ana they caught sight of a group of camels surrounded by horsemen. A couple of belts from the machine-guns scattered the escort, and Colonel Tennant and his companion, Major Hobart, were soon safe in the turret of ...
— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt

... him on the rail, amidships. Then it was repel boarders, and it started to blow big guns. His first shot put out my starboard light, and I keeled over. I was in the trough of the sea, but soon righted, and then it was a stern chase, with me in the lead. Getting into the open sea, I made a port tack and have to in this cove with the ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy


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