war zone

Example Sentences

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“It’s a war zone and shipping is being used as leverage. That’s the reality,” said Arsenio Dominguez, its secretary-general.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Shortages of oil and gas, as well as helium for high tech industries and feedstocks for fertiliser, are having an increasingly heavy impact on millions of people a long way from the war zone.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

He was in Russia for just 45 days before being sent to the war zone.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

All of the farmers I spoke to acknowledged their problems were tiny next to the suffering of people in the war zone itself.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The father of her unborn child was on the opposite side of the world in a war zone.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman