How to Use line of fire in a Sentence

line of fire

noun phrase

• And what Israel's trying to do is get them out of the line of fire.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Miles moved his girlfriend back to get her out of line of fire.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The deputy ducked, swerved the squad to get out of the line of fire, and felt pain just below his shoulder.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• At some point, the gunman’s 21-year-old accomplice got in the line of fire and was struck in the back and hip, police said.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2024
• This young man went back into the line of fire in order to protect others.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Bystanders were nearby and in the line of fire, Neronha’s office said.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Across the border in Lebanon, too, civilians have been evacuating towns that are in the line of fire.
  — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2023
• Officers on the floor shouted at reporters to move from their seats across from the main doors and get out of a direct line of fire.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Asked if Miles acknowledged moving his girlfriend out of the line of fire, Culpepper said yes.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• And a recent incident suggests even those deployed thousands of miles away from Ukraine may still be in the line of fire.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
• Option two was to barricade the outside door with desks and hide under the windows (out of sight and hopefully out of the line of fire).
  — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Pregnancy prevention tools have always been next in the line of fire.
  — Charlotte Shane, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
• They were forced to dart out of the line of fire for nearly two miles before finding cover on another trail.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• For Bailey, who was more at ease behind the camera than in front of it, being in the line of fire was not always comfortable.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• The use of lead bullets in hunting is essentially putting dozens of other animals in the line of fire after the fact.
  — Dan Ashe, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2024
• In Ukraine, one of the six nuclear reactors in the line of fire on the Dnipro River could be hit by artillery and spew radiation.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• The storm system is moving pretty much in a straight line from west to east, meaning areas in the line of fire — such as Boise — could be under a deluge for much of the weekend.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 May 2024
• Israel’s invasion of the south, which started in early December, has forced people to move every few days to stay out of the line of fire.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
• Safety is also an issue; teachers are put in the line of fire, left unprotected in an era of school shootings.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Houthi attacks continue, and the creation of a security force puts U.S. service members in the line of fire.
  — Jay Caruso, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2024
• Should Hezbollah open a northern front, Arab communities would likely be in the line of fire of Hezbollah missiles.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2023
• While Hamas’s leaders and fighters hide in Gaza’s hundreds of miles of underground tunnels, civilians are defenseless in the line of fire.
  — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
• But at least in my seat, directly in the line of fire, trumpet and trombones occasionally could have been less aggressive.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Existing international agreements intend to protect civilians in the line of fire, not guard against systemic threats to civilians around the world.
  — Zach Helder, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
• Persico said most worrying was that other media, including Israeli outlets, could also be in the line of fire.
  — Josef Federman, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
• Shoppers can save up to 64 percent on functional blackout curtains, pretty valances, and sheer drapes that will beautifully billow in the breeze of an open window (or in the line of fire of an air conditioner!).
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
• Biden, notably, did not call for Israel to allow Palestinian civilians to peacefully evacuate, which means that hundreds of thousands of people are still effectively trapped in the line of fire.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023
• And because members of nonstate groups often rely on the same sources as ordinary civilians for food, fuel, and money, these areas of the economy that are essential to civilian life are regularly in the direct line of fire.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024