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friendly fire

NOUN
  1. fire that injures or kills an ally

How To Use friendly fire In A Sentence

  • The word constructivism is a casualty of friendly fire in the culture wars. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Several soldiers were killed in friendly fire due to a mistake by allied forces.
  • Three soldiers were killed by friendly fire when a mortar bomb hit their truck.
  • As the planes flew past I saw dozens of military personnel who had been involved in friendly fire incidents cowering in fear. The Sun
  • And ‘friendly fire’ was clearly invented to cover the embarrassment of firing on wrong people or targets.
  • There were also ‘friendly fire’ casualties to which many media reports made ongoing reference.
  • Given that context, his recent fusillade of fulmination must have been nothing more than friendly fire.
  • Three soldiers were killed by friendly fire when a mortar bomb hit their truck.
  • Subsequent reports indicated he probably died from friendly fire, although still while trying to heroically assault an enemy position.
  • In service as an Army Ranger, Tillman was shot by another American in what the military calls "fratricide," but what the rest of the nation knows as "friendly fire. Pat Tillman’s Unfinished Legacy - Swampland - TIME.com
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