war zone
Example Sentences
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She praised the resilience of filmmakers who have endured strikes, dangerous political environments and even war zones.
From Los Angeles Times
“Tell me, Novis—why would your mother willingly go into what was about to be a war zone?”
From Literature
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Today, drones used on the battlefield in Ukraine and Gaza are faster, more maneuverable and more robust, enabling their operators to zip through a war zone as if in a videogame.
It states that "journalists in war zones must be treated as civilians and protected as such, provided they play no part in the hostilities".
From Barron's
One minister said the east coast resembled "a war zone".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.