How to Use killing field in a Sentence

killing field

noun
  • There are guns in the suburbs and in rural areas, and yet the suburbs aren't killing fields.
    John Kass, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Even as vast parts of his country fell from his control or turned into killing fields, Assad kept his core regime in place.
    Sarah El Deeb, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
  • His neighbor was the first to identify him, recognizing the unshaven face of a man who had watched his beloved street become a killing field.
    Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • One of the earliest images is of a tractor, plowing through dark loam and unearthing an artillery shell, presumably from the killing fields of the First World War.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 5 July 2010
  • Nine years later, even those who have never set foot near Newtown, Connecticut, can conjure the scene painted by police of a first-grade classroom turned into a killing field.
    Cnn Staff, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • My mother and father were fortunate to have survived the killing fields of Cambodia and to have emigrated to America.
    James Kuo, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Heidenreich took the stand during the second day of testimony in the murder trial of Bampumim Teixeira, 33, who is accused of killing Field and Bolaños.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • After helping exhume graves in Srebrenica, one of the most notorious killing fields of the Balkans war, Peccerelli testified during the tribunal at the Hague.
    Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Suddenly, noble visions of war preserved by paintings and statues were replaced by the awful reality of killing fields.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2018
  • As places of mass starvation and disease, and eventually of deportation to the death camps and killing fields, however, the Nazi ghettos bore little in common with the original Italian ghettos beyond the name.
    Daniel B. Schwartz, Time, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Iranian aircraft are sustaining Syria's killing fields and setting the stage for escalation against Israel.
    chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018

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