How to Use cross fire in a Sentence

cross fire

noun

• Lester said 70 to 80 people were in the vicinity of the gunfire and many were caught in the cross fire.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 4 May 2022
• Expect more of this cross fire over how to carve up the state’s gambling turf.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Oct. 2021
• With sirens wailing, police and event volunteers rushed to tend to those caught in the cross fire.
  — Robert Moran, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
• The youngsters caught in a political cross fire have been robbed of their childhood — robbed of the music of family.
  — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2019
• Meanwhile, American workers, and even farmers, some have been caught in the cross fire of Trump's tough trade battle with China.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Just on Monday night, two young residents were killed in the cross fire near Mr. Alim’s watermelon stand.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021
• Meanwhile the 10 to 15 million Americans who rely on opioids to control their chronic pain – and who are not contributing to the drug epidemic – were caught in the cross fire, Kroenke said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2019
• As the federal government prepares to roll out $16 billion to help farmers caught in the cross fire of Trump’s trade wars, Democratic congressmen want fishermen included in the deal.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2019
• The ferocious media blitzkrieg that arose when both stories became public led to Allen and Farrow being maligned in the press, with their friends and family flinging accusations into the cross fire.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2021
• The market has indiscriminately penalized tech stocks across the board and cybersecurity stocks are simply caught in the cross fire.
  — Beth Kindig, Forbes, 10 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024