battle zone
Example Sentences
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During “SNL‘’s summer hiatus, late-night became a battle zone amid the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show and a brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s under pressure from a Federal Communications Commission official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
It’s been “a breach, but not a breakthrough,” said Michael Kofman, a military analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who has made several visits to the battle zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Thousands of miles from the front in Ukraine, the embassy compound has become a battle zone of its own.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Kareem, who two years ago fled the chaos caused by the civil war in his home country, Syria, has found himself once more in the middle of a battle zone - this time in Sudan.
From BBC ● May 13, 2023
As casualties mounted, Pétain did his best to spare his troops by rotating them in and out of the battle zone.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
