How to Use line of fire in a Sentence

line of fire

noun phrase

• The officers ran out of the line of fire and slammed the door behind them.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 4 June 2024
• 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
• Boone, more than anyone, is on the line and in the line of fire if the Yankees aren’t once again a serious team come the fall.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 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
• When a flock finally came in at a different angle and didn’t see the kayaks, the hunters couldn’t shoot because the paddlers were in their line of fire.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2024
• 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
• Anything from personality or physical differences to being in the wrong place at the wrong time can put a kid in the line of fire.
  — Sherri Gordon, Clc, Parents, 20 June 2024
• 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
• As always, Americans could only admire the courage and selflessness with which agents in the former president’s security detail rushed to Trump’s aid and placed themselves in the line of fire.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 July 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

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024