land mine

Example Sentences

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The market will sort thought which software vendors can stand strong and which will fall, leaving the sector somewhat of a land mine.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The chorus—“This land’s your land / This land mine too / Is this all true, man? / Or is it just bad news?”—summarizes how little it has to say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

She even pulls off lines that should be clangers: “I really hope we don’t die in a land mine today.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

He said “stepping up monitoring and preparedness” is needed to avoid “triggering the land mine into a full-scale pandemic.”

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025

And for some crazy reason, I became absolutely certain that it had been Ali’s right leg—his twisted polio leg—that had finally betrayed him and stepped on that land mine.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini