How to Use staging ground in a Sentence

staging ground

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  • In return, Lukashenko allowed Belarus to be used as a staging ground for the war in Ukraine.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • Afghanistan no longer served as a potential staging ground for attacks on the U.S.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
  • And the Great Salt Lake isn’t the only saline lake in the West providing this critical avian staging ground.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The staging ground for this odyssey is the Colombian town of Necoclí, where hundreds of migrants from around the world are camped out on the palm-fringed beaches.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The staging ground for their relationship squabbles has grown from a petri dish to the cosmos.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The shooting took place near a park in Portland that has been the staging ground for a number of protests against police killings in recent years.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Russian troops have used the town as a staging ground for operations in the east since seizing control of it in May.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The headquarters and its factory gates were the frequent staging ground for protests.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The passage devoted to the fort describes it as the staging ground for Wallace’s plans to capture the Scottish castle of Lochmaben in 1297.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
  • Now, Necoclí, a small Colombian tourist town just at the mouth of the passage, has become a staging ground for migrants hoping to cross.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Oil still drives a boom-and-bust economy, making the state a kind of war profiteer and a staging ground for climate change.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Crimea was a key staging ground when President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Belarus is a close ally of Russia and was a staging ground for the Kremlin's invasion on Feb. 24.
    — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The Great Salt Lake alone serves as a nesting and staging ground for more than 10 million migratory birds each year.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Control over the city would isolate Russian forces to the south in Izyum, which Moscow had sought to use as a staging ground for its own offensive.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Belarus was a staging ground for Russian troops to launch their invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
    — Francesca Ebel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • Kyiv has warned Transnistria, which lies on Ukraine’s western border, could be the staging ground for a Russian attack.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Reddit, the company that was the staging ground for the revolt of amateur traders, also did well.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Forty-two years later, that same spot serves as the staging ground for construction crews building the border wall in this valley.
    — Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • His efforts came even as the country became a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine in February.
    — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Just across the border from an Israeli radar tower, it has been used as a staging ground for Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The move made southern Turkish towns staging grounds for the opposition.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Belarus served as a staging ground for Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
    — Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Belarus was a staging ground for amassing Russian troops before the invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Russia could use Crimea’s ports to block Ukrainian trade, for example, or as a staging ground for future conflict.
    — Adam Taylor, Júlia Ledur, Francesca Ebel and Mary Ilyushina, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • On Thursday, with the Cason Methodist Church as the staging ground, nearly a dozen scouts — both boys and girls — fanned out around town to deliver dinners to 66 families who are in need.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Under the agreement, the Taliban promise not to let extremists use the country as a staging ground for attacking the U.S. or its allies.
    — Kathy Gannon, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
  • After seizing the city early in the war, Moscow used it as a staging ground for operations across southern Ukraine.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • Read full article Belarus was a staging ground for Russian troops to launch their invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023

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