How to Use under fire in a Sentence

under fire

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• Real strength – the kind that holds up under fire – is not something that can be topped off with a hormone.
  — Adam Stanaland, The Conversation, 20 July 2026
• My father, who had been flying under fire without complaint, lost it.
  — Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026
• Angels owner Arte Moreno has come under fire since the team has not made the playoffs since 2014.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
• Cunningham is under fire for defending women's sports and Hill wasted little time weighing in.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
• Embattled by a combination of (mostly) fake and real outrage, Triple H has come under fire for booking the same people in the main event.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
• The answer rests in part on strong institutions and steady economic management, a central bank and a government that held the macro-economy together under fire.
  — Frayda Leibtag, Time, 13 July 2026
• Casualty evacuation has also become common, although such missions require careful planning under fire.
  — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Dru-Ann Jones (Regina Hall) is a college friend and a sports agent who is under fire for publicly dismissing one of her clients who wanted to take a break from playing soccer to focus on mental health.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 July 2026
• Wilson’s translation has come under fire for her decision to render Homeric Greek into a direct, colloquial English.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
• Ukraine shows why sovereign AI depends on the ability to compress, distribute and continually update intelligence under fire.
  — John Sviokla, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
• Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez celebrated the rescue on social media at a time that her government has come under fire for what many Venezuelans say has been an inadequate crisis response.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2026
• Rush-White Sox partnership under fire Rush signed a multi-year sponsorship as the White Sox's official healthcare partner, paying tens of thousands of dollars for stadium branding, game sponsorships and other marketing.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026
• Meanwhile, more than 100 Russian vessels — many exporting crude — in the ⁠Black Sea and Sea ⁠of Azov have come under fire, further limiting Russia's ability to export oil and refined products.
  — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 July 2026
• Around 2 million people were under fire alerts Monday across the Four Corners states — Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — as well as parts of Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 29 June 2026