line of fire

noun phrase

: the place where bullets are being shot

Some civilians got caught in the line of fire.

Examples of line of fire in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are in a tit-for-tat trade war, each fully willing to escalate, with the fight against inflation directly in the line of fire. —Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025

Cities such as Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, remained in the line of fire. —John Bacon, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025

With 17 museums, a garden, the Archives of American Art, and a zoo, the Smithsonian is sprawling, eclectic, and in President Trump’s line of fire. —Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025

The department’s attempt to place the federal government itself in the lawsuits’ line of fire instead of Mr. Trump hinges on whether lawyers can persuade the federal judge overseeing the suits, Amit P. Mehta, that Mr. Trump was in fact acting in his official capacity as president on Jan. 6. —Alan Feuer, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for line of fire

• amplifier
• clarifier
• classifier
• gasifier
• magnifier
• modifier
• multiplier
• occupier
• pacifier
• purifier
• qualifier
• quantifier