How to Use crosshair in a Sentence

crosshair

noun

• Michael Saponara: Is this bait to get in the Swifty crosshairs?
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 23 July 2024
• This was not the first time Swift got caught in the feud’s crosshairs.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 9 Feb. 2025
• Fairstein, as she is portrayed in the film, was in the crosshairs.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 8 July 2019
• The crosshairs of the picture show the location of the black hole.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2019
• And that puts him in the crosshairs after a loss like this.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
• So Liz, and therefore Agnes, are sort of in the crosshairs.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• Turn the scope to line the crosshairs up with the vertical line.
  — Field & Stream, 12 Sep. 2019
• Jeff Flake and Dean Heller are already in the crosshairs.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Oct. 2017
• The crosshair can be set to dot or cross shapes, in green, red, or white.
  — PCMAG, 1 Mar. 2023
• Afghanistan, Iraq and then Libya fell into the crosshairs.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
• Burgers and hash browns were ready to serve in 10 of the 11 stores caught in Michael’s crosshairs.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• Hitting the breaks when there's a friendly in the crosshairs isn't so easy.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Afghan forces have been in the crosshairs of the Taliban despite the peace accord that the U.S. signed with the group.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2020
• Soleimani has long been in the crosshairs of U.S. military.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2020
• Mario Batali is the latest celebrity to get caught in the crosshairs of the #MeToo movement.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2017
• Their ailments and age put them in the crosshairs of the coronavirus.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 2 Apr. 2020
• He’s been in our crosshairs (and the prosecutors’) from the start.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• These are all rights that are currently in the crosshairs.
  — Valentina Valentini, Marie Claire, 14 Apr. 2017
• Elway has been in the fans’ crosshairs over the last few days following the 0-3 start.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• But people should be afraid of her and of getting in her crosshairs.
  — EW.com, 18 July 2025
• Their strength in Iowa put them in the crosshairs of rivals as the race shifted to New Hampshire.
  — Steve Peoples, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Billionaire Steve Wynn is the latest to get caught in the crosshairs of the #MeToo movement.
  — Valentina Zarya, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2018
• The prospect of playing games without fans would put athletes in the crosshairs of the disease.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 15 May 2020
• Up the road, the fight rages for the key town of Pokrovsk – in the Kremlin’s crosshairs for months, but now at risk of encirclement.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
• Peacock and Sky have a second season of The Day of the Jackal in their crosshairs.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
• Until the federal government put the city in its crosshairs.
  — Jennifer Brooks, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
• If Europe does not draw a line in the sand now, who knows where American crosshairs will eventually drift?
  — Séamus Malekafzali, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
• For months, an unsatisfying finish line lay in the crosshairs.
  — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• Looming over the desk is a giant cross made of yardsticks, those famous instruments of parochial-school torment, formed into a set of crosshairs.
  — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
• However, the British press soon had her in their crosshairs.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025