How to Use friendly fire in a Sentence

friendly fire

noun

• Love to cook outdoors or sit around a friendly fire, but don't love the idea of paying too much?
  — Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2020
• He was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan two years later.
  — Kirk Kenney, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 in a friendly fire incident.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• He was killed by friendly fire in 2004 near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
  — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
• An auto theft task force member was shot in the leg by friendly fire.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Tillman was serving as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan when he was killed by friendly fire at the age of 27.
  — Daniel Canova, Fox News, 18 May 2021
• Only now their friendly fire comes with a can of Lysol and Clorox wipes, plus masks to slip on anytime someone gets too close.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 June 2020
• Valiant volleys act as friendly fire, adding to the death toll of innocent tissues.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016
• Of those 20 deaths, 13 were caused by friendly fire, or internal fire from the military's own troops.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• Among them is an assertion that one of the officers involved in the shooting death was shot by friendly fire.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 24 June 2020
• Rather than preparing to celebrate a big win, the White House spent the weekend dealing with friendly fire.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• Hear how overgrown weeds can be replaced by a quiet, shady retreat or group-friendly fire pit area.
  — oregonlive, 6 July 2022
• Then came some errant friendly fire, a teammate’s helmet hitting the junior in his right leg.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 6 Sep. 2022
• The only true Challenger 2 kill came from friendly fire from another Challenger 2 tank, which killed two of the crew and set the vehicle ablaze.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
• The task force officer injured by friendly fire was shot in his shin, and was treated at a hospital.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Miami Marlins third base coach Jody Reed was hit by friendly fire.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Coach Jim Montgomery confirmed postgame that Ullmark, 13-1-0 this season, was the victim of friendly fire.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
• Two years after enlisting, he was killed by friendly fire during a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• And this was only one of two recent headlines about Trump being blasted by friendly fire.
  — Leonard Pitts and Jr., miamiherald, 10 Oct. 2017
• The fact both were open was even more of an indictment on the Vol secondary who didn’t take advantage of a backyard play that almost caused friendly fire.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 16 Oct. 2022
• The Browns practiced in pads for the first time on Tuesday, and Stefanski reminded them not to engage in friendly fire.
  — cleveland, 2 Aug. 2022
• The new commercial is the latest exchange of not-so-friendly fire between Intel and Apple in recent months.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
• Shanahan bled from friendly fire (an errant Lapointe stick).
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2022
• Some have shown support for the war using the letter Z, which was first emblazoned on the Russian tanks invading Ukraine, perhaps to avoid friendly fire.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• Nevertheless, pilots recalled the first days of the war as chaotic and dangerous, plagued by cases of friendly fire.
  — Carlotta Gall Daniel Berehulak, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The company is facing some friendly fire from the tech community.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
• At the source of these patients’ woes is friendly fire from their own immune systems, which wipe out the cells in the pancreas that make insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
• The bill faced friendly fire in the equine industry Tuesday from standardbred interests.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
• This made avoiding friendly fire much easier, as anti-aircraft gunners in the invasion fleet and on the ground were simply told to treat any aircraft with the stripes as friendly.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2021
• Initially said to have been killed by enemy fire in a battle with the Taliban, the U.S. military later revealed that Tillman was killed by friendly fire.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024