war zone
Example Sentences
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The sea is sometimes so tranquil that Captain Hassan Khan forgets his ship has been stuck in the middle of a war zone for three months.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
More than half of the calls have been about pay and other contractual entitlements while in the war zone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
One email seen by AFP came from a seafarer asking to confirm whether his salary would go from $16 a day to $32 because he was in a designated war zone.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 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 lawn looked like a war zone, with smoking craters and trenches from the blown-out irrigation pipes.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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