NOUN
- the line from which soldiers deliver fire
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the most advanced and responsible group in an activity
the firing line is where the action is
How To Use firing line In A Sentence
- She got them moved away and out of the firing line, so to speak. Times, Sunday Times
- These are the people who put themselves in the firing line as they take part in phone-in shows ready to answer any question that's thrown at them. The Sun
- But she is not putting me in the firing line for taking her make-up. The Sun
- After seven years in the firing line with Rangers and three-and-a-half years prising out body pellets at Goodison Park, Smith is inured to criticism.
- A couple of civilians were caught in the firing line.
- A sunspot five times the size of Earth could wreak havoc with satellites and radio communication systems, scientists warn, as it moves across the face of the sun and Earth moves directly into its firing line.
- In fact the "firing line" that is the ozone layer is a deep one. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
- Its application does put its exponents in the firing line of critical appraisal.
- It doesn't happen in Iraq, because there's no power, you don't have the technological infrastructure in Iraq but here suddenly we're seeing now really a serious upraise in the number of citizen journalists from both sides of the firing line filing blogs, first hand witness accounts of what it's like to be under fire. CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2006
- Assam is in the firing line of changing weather patterns as it lies on the edge of the growing range of tea. Times, Sunday Times