How to Use war zone in a Sentence

war zone

noun
  • Kyiv felt like a war zone for the first time since April.
    Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
  • By the spring of 1976, the city of Boston had become a kind of war zone.
    Faith Salie, CBS News, 18 June 2023
  • Ukrainians at least were able to flee from the war zone.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Face-to-face polling in a war zone comes with severe risks.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Aside from the mines, the southern part of Ukraine is very much an active war zone.
    Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Putting aside the specifics of this conflict, what is the humane way to deal with civilians in war zones?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The actor referred to his childhood as a war zone at times.
    Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 22 June 2022
  • But that meant leaving two sons who have the same blood disorder in a war zone.
    Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The farther away from the war zone, the more interest appears to be flagging.
    Susi Dennison, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2023
  • At first glance, Efron is playing a version of some of his past comedic roles, a himbo in a war zone.
    Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Sneaking the leader of the free world into an active war zone in Ukraine isn't easy.
    Nancy Cordes, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But remember, this is a war zone, and things are very fluid.
    ABC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Richville Road in Standish next to Sebago Lake looks like a war zone.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • But fieldwork has been complicated by the fact the river sits in the middle of a war zone.
    Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 9 June 2023
  • This is Biden’s first visit to a war zone as president.
    Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The stress and the realities of living in a war zone, however, proved to be too much.
    Ryan Bergeron, CNN, 17 June 2022
  • The inside of your microwave probably looks like a war zone.
    Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Super-low flying now is standard across the Ukraine war zone.
    David Axe, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • And besides, how can anyone resist a hero who runs through a war zone in flip-flops?
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Neither was guaranteed to be available on a train trip in a war zone.
    Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Ziff says even war zones are fair game for recruitment.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • The obstacles for reporters are wide-ranging even for a war zone.
    Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Thankfully for the Lightstones, this new version of the jolly old elf knows his way around a war zone.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2022
  • In Salaam, for instance, Lual Mayen puts the player in the position of a refugee fleeing a war zone.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • His shoulder was still hurting and in a makeshift sling, his hands were sliced up, and his foot resembled a war zone.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, more workplace stress, this time in a hospital that sometimes seems like a war zone.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The alternative is years of further suffering for those in the war zone.
    Eric Schmidt, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Gutin says past first ladies have met with troops during war time, but visiting with refugees near a war zone might be a first.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
  • The members of the group, many of whom work anonymously, shoot footage in the war zone and provide it free of charge to news channels outside the country.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • But this is not a black-bag operation in a war zone or cloak-and-dagger spy games in Cold War–era East Berlin.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2023

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