So heavy a crossfire could be brought to bear by the besieged upon an assaulting column, that it would be swept away before it could mount the breach.
The ground in front of the infantry trenches is also, as a rule, under crossfire from the field artillery placed on neighboring features and under high-angle fire from pieces placed well back behind the woods on top of the plateau.
In a moment the whole of the ground over which the pioneers would have to pass was being swept by a crossfire of lead in which it seemed impossible that anything could live.
He ought to have turned, as soon as that crossfire of their batteries opened upon them.
He and his men were answering the rapid crossfire of the Germans, when they saw two dark objects lobbed through the air from the woods on the right.
Then they’ll try crossfire from those two positions, and when that doesn’t work, they’ll begin tossing grenades and maybe get a few light mortars into action.
Crossfire from Gaan coordinated with the machine guns on nearby tiny Yona island to rake the beaches allocated to the 4th Marines under Lieutenant Colonel Alan Shapley.
He had to run with a wounded foot through crossfire to reach some safety.
The wood rang with the crossfire of the foes who could not see each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crossfire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
