battle zone

Example Sentences

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During “SNL‘’s summer hiatus, late-night became a battle zone amid the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show and a brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s under pressure from a Federal Communications Commission official.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

And in the battle zone, artillery stocks have dwindled alarmingly, the senior U.S. commander in Europe warned Congress on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Thousands of miles from the front in Ukraine, the embassy compound has become a battle zone of its own.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2023

The place they, too, had known their whole lives was suddenly a battle zone, with activists and police facing off.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2021

As casualties mounted, Pétain did his best to spare his troops by rotating them in and out of the battle zone.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman