Example sentences for: cross-fire

How can you use “cross-fire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Punjab, the home province of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, more than 850 people have been shot by police since he came to power two years ago, according to a Punjabi paper, the News . The police explanation of these killings is often that the suspects died "in cross-fire" during street battles with criminal gangs, but Pakistani lawyers and human rights groups say the killings are deliberate and authorized by Sharif's government, the Guardian said.

  • caught in the cross-fire that has been going on for a few years between Alan Abelson and James Cramer.

  • Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema was caught in cross-fire between the Communists and the Atlantic loyalists, it said.


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