fire at will

phrase

: to shoot when one feels one should

The officers were told to fire at will.

Examples of fire at will in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

No one shot it better than Sheppard, who felt free to fire at will. — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2026

Producing fire at will would have necessitated social coordination and more complex divisions of labor within hominin communities. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2025

With Imperial troops ordered to fire at will and the massacre underway, Cassian tried again and again to get Dedra in his literal crosshairs. — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 May 2025

In Firestarter, Zac Efron and Sidney Lemmon are parents whose daughter develops pyrokinesis and can set things on fire at will. — David Faris, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022

The finding, while intriguing, likely won't convince everyone that Neanderthals produced fire at will. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018

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