How to Use out of line in a Sentence

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• Miles moved his girlfriend back to get her out of line of fire.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• Was Erich out of line with his post-date visit to Gabby?
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2022
• Miles moved his girlfriend back to get her out of line of fire, Culpepper added.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 10 Mar. 2023
• There were debates about whether his comments were out of line.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• But some officials felt his message was out of line, and the email soon leaked to the press, a bad look for top brass.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• This show is about women that stepped out of line and continued to do so.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• This is statistically way out of line the odds which are 1 in 128.
  — Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
• But large deductions that seem out of line for your income or business can be a red flag.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• Asking about their families or hobbies is not out of line.
  — Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Is the Cleveland Clinic out of line charging patients for the time doctors spend responding to emails?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
• But the proportion of Black students being disciplined is still out of line.
  — Dallas News, 18 May 2022
• Is the Cleveland Clinic out of line charging patients for the time doctors spending responding to emails?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
• The current ordinance allows up to 15 times, which officials said is out of line with other major cities.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• The suicide data in town is disturbing but not out of line with national statistics.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2022
• For Putin, the big concern is that Moscow’s disparate pro-Kremlin elites could fall out of line if Russia’s military continues to struggle.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Huntsman’s financial results at the time of the deal were not out of line with chemical industry and broader economic trends, the company added.
  — Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 14 July 2022
• Some of these entrepreneurs feel demonized for being wealthy or having opinions that are out of line with contemporary culture.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Gabe Kapler’s actions regarding his national anthem protest are offensive and out of line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• In today’s schools, if the student is out of line and deserves discipline, in a lot of cases the parents complain and the administrators consider the customer always right.
  — WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• The two reports ended up telling similar stories: Both were a bit hotter than forecasters expected, but not as far out of line as some of the January data.
  — Joe Rennison Joe Rennison Emily Flitter Joe Rennison Erin Griffith Erin Griffith Ben Casselman Emily Flitter Emily Flitter Rob Copeland Joe Rennison Jeanna Smialek Jeanna Smialek Joe Rennison Ben Casselman Ben Casselman Jeanna Smialek Jeanna Smialek Ben Casselman Ben Casselman Joe Rennison Jeanna Smialek Jeanna Smialek Ben Casselman Ben Casselman Jeanna Smialek Ben Casselman Joe Rennison Ben Casse, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• For hundreds of years, morality tales have either punished girls who stepped out of line or exposed them as being misunderstood and lonely.
  — Emily Alford, Longreads, 23 Nov. 2022
• Lamb has argued that Fetterman has taken positions that are out of line with key swing voters in Pennsylvania.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 16 May 2022
• That’s modest by the standards of new luxury SUVs, but not out of line given the Taycan’s low profile, which limited battery space under the floor, and high performance.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2022
• In 2018, inspectors investigated a complaint and discovered the building’s owners had gone rogue, building a project out of line with what was approved.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Fox has argued vociferously that the $1.6 billion amount Dominion is claiming is out of line with the voting machine company’s worth.
  — Elahe Izadi, Jeremy Barr and Sarah Ellison, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• While that person was out of line regardless of your actions or position, accepting current reality will at least get your job done at this moment.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
• With such unfavorable numbers, why are Biden and his team seemingly in so little hurry to get a campaign up and running? To start, Biden’s overall job approval rating, 43%, is not out of line with other presidents who won a second term.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, Trump publicly blasts those who offer testimony against him in bluntly personal terms, offering a clear example to others of the consequences of stepping out of line.
  — Jacqueline Alemany, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Institutional investors’ allocations to equities remain above the long-term trend, and their cash holdings aren’t out of line with historical averages either, State Street data show.
  — Eric Wallerstein, wsj.com, 7 May 2023
• The process of involving multiple staffers and teams and relying on research for high-profile decisions does not appear out of line with how Twitter and other social platforms make content moderation decisions, especially in crisis situations.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024