cross hairs

British  

plural noun

1. Also called: cross wires.  two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight

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Example Sentences

Musk’s relationship with Trump wasn’t the only one in Kimmel’s cross hairs Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

But then FTX collapsed practically overnight, putting him in the cross hairs of law enforcement.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024

They are expected to argue that before he fell into investigators’ cross hairs, there was little evidence he was slipping mentally.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

But it increasingly finds itself in the cross hairs of climate change.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Fixing the telescope in the first instance with its cross hairs upon the object, its end was lowered until it struck the point upon the glacier at which a stake was to be fixed.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John