land mine
noun
: a mine usually placed just below the surface of the ground and designed to be exploded usually by the weight of vehicles or troops passing over it
—often used figuratively
Every aspect of this scheme is a potential land mine.—
Henry A. Kissinger
Henry A. Kissingera political land mine
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Examples of land mine in a Sentence
parents of teenagers never know when they might set off an emotional land mine
Recent Examples on the Web
Ukrainian refugees who want to return home are hesitant to do so because of the continuing threat of land mines.
—Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Russia’s ubiquitous land mines have blown legs or feet off thousands of Ukrainian men.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Bombs that failed to detonate became de facto land mines, which the Vietnamese government estimates have caused 100,000 deaths and injuries since the war’s end.
—Seth Mydans, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
An inert land mine found in a storage unit in Jefferson County just south of Lakewood prompted a shelter-in-place order for a quarter of a mile surrounding Public Storage at 10201 W. Hampden Ave.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2024
Russian troops have settled in on Ukrainian soil and littered eastern Ukraine with land mines, which injure and kill Ukrainian combatants and civilians alike even in areas that the Ukrainian army has won back.
—Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
The $95 billion U.S. aid package to Ukraine under consideration by Congress includes a provision that would fund land mine clearance in the country.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Hex-bar dead lifts, jump rope, land mines, crunches, band curls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
Baur's algorithm, trained on the visual characteristics of 70 types of land mines, cluster munitions, and other unexploded ordnance, processes the images into a map, with resolution down to a fraction of an inch.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Russia’s ubiquitous land mines have blown legs or feet off thousands of Ukrainian men.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Bombs that failed to detonate became de facto land mines, which the Vietnamese government estimates have caused 100,000 deaths and injuries since the war’s end.
—Seth Mydans, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
An inert land mine found in a storage unit in Jefferson County just south of Lakewood prompted a shelter-in-place order for a quarter of a mile surrounding Public Storage at 10201 W. Hampden Ave.
—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2024
Russian troops have settled in on Ukrainian soil and littered eastern Ukraine with land mines, which injure and kill Ukrainian combatants and civilians alike even in areas that the Ukrainian army has won back.
—Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
The $95 billion U.S. aid package to Ukraine under consideration by Congress includes a provision that would fund land mine clearance in the country.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Hex-bar dead lifts, jump rope, land mines, crunches, band curls.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
Baur's algorithm, trained on the visual characteristics of 70 types of land mines, cluster munitions, and other unexploded ordnance, processes the images into a map, with resolution down to a fraction of an inch.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
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