killing field

noun

: a scene of mass killing (as from a battle or massacre)

Examples of killing field in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Plenty of signs were there during early voting – especially in North Carolina, a killing field where Republicans lost House and state legislative seats that were gerrymandered to be impossible to lose. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Something that would turn the American Special Forces firebase at Jalrez into a killing field. — Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

And so, as the Khmer Rouge continued to fertilize the killing fields with the corpses of his countrymen, Toek Tik slipped away and went on the run. — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026

Another a Cambodian grandmother of eight who fled Pol Pot’s killing fields as a girl nearly 50 years ago. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for killing field

• battlefield
• unconcealed
• unrepealed
• unrevealed
• afield
• airfield
• annealed
• appealed
• brownfield
• coalfield
• concealed
• congealed