Used in a Sentence

crosshairs

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crosshairs.

Editorial note

Providers who fell in between the eyeballs and the content got in the crosshairs.

Examples16
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crosshairs gathered in one view.

noun

A set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crosshairs.

noun

A set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.

Example sentences

1

Providers who fell in between the eyeballs and the content got in the crosshairs.

2

Pretty much directly in the crosshairs of a lot of hacker news readers.

3

But it seriously crosses a line when it becomes targeted harassment, cyberstalking, and there are threats of violence--especially when your children are in the crosshairs.

4

Seems to me that mods are wary that even discussing this issue may put their sub in the crosshairs, and use tenuous reasons to delete.

5

A loud minority enforce the culture of anonymity on the internet and having a public presence will open one up to getting caught in the crosshairs.

6

He may not have identified the sociopath aspect, but did have the entitled MOPs in his crosshairs and kept them out with (sometimes utterly brilliant, btw) flamage.

7

It's not hard to imagine this leading to trouble as soon as you get into the crosshairs of some internet troll who managed to get your mobile number.

8

Azure itself is pretty safe from Gruber's crosshairs.

9

I never said it was, I was simply pointing out that this week it's Microsoft in the media crosshairs over practices that are not unique to them.

10

As a side note, this is why 9/11 was such a monumental event from an American point of view: it was one of the very few times that Americans were in the crosshairs.

11

There is concern on that website that anti-GG extremists are taking over and it looks like /r/anarchism is yet another subreddit in the crosshairs; it's yet another completely unrelated discussion getting dragged into this internet misogyny/misandry.

12

A common problem described in that essay, which is not a jab or insult towards Bitcoin, though definitely has the Bitcoin community in its crosshairs, is that the community seemed to take his very real experience with tip4commit as criticism of Bitcoin; your comments are doing a wonderful job of demonstrating the problem.

Quote examples

1

Now, Bob Lucas, another famous macroeconomist and growth theorist (and Nobel Winner) and his co-authors have been in Romer's crosshairs for some time because of what he calls the "mathiness" of their work.

2

Because the applied crypto community points out issue after issue after issue with their product and is met with variations of "nuh uh, it's fine!" Bad crypto is worse than no crypto because either way the NSA is watching you, but when you use no crypto you're at least forced to admit to yourself that your adversary has you in their crosshairs.

3

You might if the phone company not only knew about it, but marketed itself on its willingness to look the other way when callers used its network for illegal activity, and encouraged the idea of using its network for hits-for-hire to the degree that it called itself "Assassins' Telephone and Telegraph" and made a logo of a crosshairs for its website.

4

This makes me so mad I was a driver for a while had had some major issues with the company eventually souring any interest in any of the similar services (car related or otherwise) this really get's me going as the reported time frames put me in the "crosshairs" now.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use crosshairs in a sentence?

Providers who fell in between the eyeballs and the content got in the crosshairs.

What does crosshairs mean?

A set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.

What part of speech is crosshairs?

crosshairs is commonly used as noun.