How to Use minefield in a Sentence

minefield

noun
Definition of minefieldnext
  • The rocket boosts the charge into the air, draping the line charge across the minefield.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • But as with so many things in this film — why is Penn in this minefield?
    — Miriam Elder, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Distraught Alex is on the run, and Kirsten pursues her at a sprint across the minefield.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Sak also found a map that the Russians had used to mark their minefields.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Composing the score for a war film can be, apologies for the metaphor, a minefield.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Still, who would send their kids into such a minefield?
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • If being a Confirmed360 client is a mixed bag, working there could be a minefield.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
  • At the point where the soldiers became stranded in a minefield, south of the town of Orikhiv, Ukraine has advanced about 1 mile.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • That just feels like a whole minefield to have the author of the novel as part of a group of writers adapting the novel.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • The man with the unenviable task of guiding the princess through the minefield was Paul Heslop of the Halo Trust.
    — Max Foster, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • And even when the war ends, minefields could leave the land unused and unproductive for decades.
    — WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • His wish for his party is to speed through the post-Roe minefield and hope voters put it behind them.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • To get into any plot details past this point is to play hopscotch in a minefield.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Ukraine, which has no navy to speak of, laid minefields to restrict the Russian Navy’s freedom of movement.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And the one that's really slowing the Ukrainians down are these minefields.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That may come in the form of uncrewed land vehicles, which could crash through Russian lines and clear the dense minefields in its way.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • It’s a minefield, one that very few women have ever been able to traverse.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 25 June 2021
  • Behind this line are minefields and then more trenches.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • Choosing the all-time greatest movies filmed here is more of a subjective minefield, due to the eclectic nature of the best films.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2022
  • Being a parent of a child in the smartphone age can be a minefield, and there’s no one-fits-all path for each family.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Fighting the world is a welcome challenge; fighting at home is a minefield.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The system works by launching a line charge filled with explosives over a minefield.
    — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
  • While no game is a given, nine wins would be impressive in this league's minefield of a schedule.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
  • If your lawn has become a minefield with doggie doodoo, then any of these scoopers is here to save you.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 29 June 2021
  • Her future, her dream waited patiently at the end of the minefield that was her high school career.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
  • Platforms are a minefield for famous people who post from the hip without PR teams.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Highways and backroads across the Pelican State are a minefield of downed trees and power lines as the stranded could be stuck for days.
    — NBC News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Nearly everywhere was a minefield: her school and her hood.
    — Michaela Angela Davis, Allure, 14 May 2022
  • The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said the vehicle had been trapped in a prepared minefield that set off the explosion.
    — James MacKenzie and Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 15 June 2024
  • Others survived with serious injuries and tried to crawl through the minefield back toward the Russian positions.
    — Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024

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