land mine
Example Sentences
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Pentagon safety inspectors came to the Tennessee property of explosives manufacturer Accurate Energetic Systems four times a year, tasked with examining facilities that made land mines, demolition charges and other products for the military.
On Monday, two soldiers were killed there by a land mine planted by an Islamic State cell, the SDF said.
She even pulls off lines that should be clangers: “I really hope we don’t die in a land mine today.”
From Los Angeles Times
Today, they are all barren, with no greenery visible except for the green tops of land mines that we can see using binoculars.
From BBC
He said “stepping up monitoring and preparedness” is needed to avoid “triggering the land mine into a full-scale pandemic.”
From Salon
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