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
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
Two students formed an impromptu taxi service and rescued dozens of people from a battle zone in Sudan.
From New York Times • May 6, 2023
On Friday, which for Eastern rite Christians is Good Friday, Ukrainian families inside and outside the main battle zone prepared as best they could to observe Easter Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022
A Viet Cong suspect, whose injured leg was bandaged by a US Marines medic, is carried to an interrogation area in a battle zone, 1965.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
