curtain of fire
Example Sentences
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You go from, like, a curtain of fire, to only one vent, and then you start building a crater that becomes bigger and bigger.
From Slate • Dec. 20, 2023
From deep fortifications further inland artillery could lay down a curtain of fire offshore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Caught in the curtain of fire that rose from the growing oil slick, the aft section, containing about 100,000 tons of crude, quickly sank.
From Time Magazine Archive
I, their commander, will never forget their splendid advance through the German curtain of fire.
From The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' by MacDonagh, Michael
I realized that if I had been one of the colonels and made such a suggestion I should have drawn a curtain of fire upon myself.
From My Second Year of the War by Palmer, Frederick
