Bridget Divers was the wife of a soldier, and performed deeds of daring in bringing wounded from the field, under fire.
Sherman (the now famous general), walking out with his little son that afternoon, found himself for the first time under fire, and lay down in a gully while the bullets cut the twigs of the trees above him.
Every historian of the Revolutionary war thinks it necessary to record anew the fact that when the flagstaff of Fort Moultrie was shot away Sergeant Jasper leaped down from the parapet and recovered it under fire.
To talk of the heroic attitude of Paris, when the Parisians have not been under fire, is simply absurd.
If they are on the plateau of Meudon, and if they carry, as is asserted, nine kilometres, a large portion of the city on the left bank of the Seine will be under fire.
I reserve my opinion until I have seen it under fire.
The German battery that was firing would be responded to, two to one, by other American batteries located nearby and which did not happen to be under fire at the time.
Our regiment then marched out from under fire, and were received with cheers from all the other regiments that had come up to our support.
As I said before, this result was no fault of the rank and file of the 45th, whom I have seen marching in under fire, with ranks precisely dressed up, and acting with coolness and intrepidity.
You have had more than your share of ill luck, but I am proud of you, that you stand up under fire like a man.
They cannot stand up "under fire," but fall back when by sufficient will force they might win a decisive victory in the battle of life.
At 0655 a large number of Japanese were observed in the town of Albuera and these also were taken under fire.
Earlier in the day an American tank had bogged down in a swamp to the left of the road, and the crew was forced to abandon it under fire, leaving the guns intact.
The Japanese defenders would thus be under fire on their front and rear.
We had been under arms for seventeen hours, most of the time exposed to the pitiless rays of an Indian sun, under fire for a considerable period, and, with the exception of the slight halt for breakfast, on our feet all the time.
The Indian Men Everybody is wild about the Indians, and the way they behave themselves under fire is marvellous.
Several times, to my very lively recollection we met under fire.
It was the first time during the whole war that they had been forced from a position, under fire, and they were mad enough to eat those people up.
This thing happens to every body of troops marching forward, under fire, in whatever formation it may be.
In modern masses, in French masses especially, the march can be continued, but the mass loses while marching under fire.
You hear officers who have been under fire say "When you get near the enemy, the men deploy as skirmishers despite you.
I was told by an observation officer to keep low, as the Germans had the church still under fire.
The exposure brought us under fire of some sharp-shooters, but we hadn't time to stop and shoot.
One morning when I got to the hospital, believing him still very ill, he greeted me with, "I go back to my depot in three days; in a fortnight I shall be under fire!
The entanglements in front of the first line of trenches were from fifteen to twenty yards wide, the wires being twisted from post to post in such a hopeless jumble that no man could possibly get through them under fire.
I wondered if you had any of the thoughts that have crowded in on me under fire.
The chaplain was simply to be the man of God, the ministrant of religion, the moral companion without regard to theological faith, who might show, under fire, his greater faith in the souls of men fighting for a cause.
The men workers of other auxiliaries went up under fire, and distributed chocolate and cigarettes.
There was no rest for the engineers; all the branches which were not ordinarily in the front line knew what it was to be under fire.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "under fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
