How to Use land mine in a Sentence

land mine

noun

• The sergeant stepped on a land mine and lost both legs.
  — Matt Schudel, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
• And at 2 to 3 pounds in weight, the rats are too light to set off a land mine.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• He was hit by a land mine and lost both legs above the knee.
  — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 25 May 2020
• The early mistakes in Iraq were like land mines sown in the soil.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• The land mine that killed Ma Simet and two others was laid decades ago.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Bloomberg’s record offers land mines for all of these groups.
  — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 11 Feb. 2020
• He too, was killed by a land mine, nearly 30 years ago.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Nor, at least right now, are there any more land mines to be avoided.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2020
• The prisoners were placed in front of a row of land mines and forced to kneel on the explosives.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2020
• Hex-bar dead lifts, jump rope, land mines, crunches, band curls.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• Maybe the Bills game at home is as close to a check mark in the win column, but the rest of the schedule is littered with land mines.
  — baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Many of the patients are victims of four decades of war and a landscape riddled with bombs and land mines.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• The Houthis, meanwhile, have laid land mines, killing and wounding civilians.
  — Ahmed Al-Haj, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
• The mountainous border is scarred with barbed wire, tank traps, land mines and guard posts.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, The Seattle Times, 3 Feb. 2018
• The project’s hurdles should have been obvious; the area was riddled with land mines.
  — Paula Moura, ProPublica, 22 May 2019
• Two of them, 32-year-old Roman and 50-year-old Oleh, each lost a leg in land mine explosions.
  — Nathan Smith, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Since Apopo started the rat-training program in 1997, the rodents have branched out from land mines.
  — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• Former battlefields, the slopes still contain land mines from the Balkan wars.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
• But, funny story, the van was full of gingerbread and land mines and a minotaur.
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2019
• The Myanmar military said that any land mines found in the area were the work of Rohingya insurgents.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• There are still many thousands of land mines buried along the DMZ but our tour guide cheerily told us we didn’t have to watch our step.
  — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2018
• The women had been killed by a Russian land mine weeks earlier, the police said.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2022
• That one person in every 333 had lost a limb, most of them through land mine explosions.
  — Katie Frost, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Aug. 2018
• And less goose poop could mean less E. coli in the water and fewer fecal land mines for visitors to step on.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
• Everyone knew the playoff path would be littered with more land mines than past years.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The rules will remain pending a review into the land mine issue.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
• Coupled with land mines laid by the Houthis to defend the city, aid workers fear civilians are bearing the brunt of the offensive.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• In the school’s courtyard, Clara Haas points to a poster with colorful illustrations of bombs and land mines.
  — Sira Thierij, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2023
• Some of this debt may be forgiven by the SBA, but what isn't will act as a hidden land mine for small businesses.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• Cleared land, where children can walk to school without fear of stepping on land mines, is a direct result of this aid.
  — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024