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 the country’s largest fields are located close to the frontline and, in many cases, are now covered in land mines and can’t be planted.
— Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2024 -
But this conflict, with its hand-to-hand combat and profusion of land mines, feels like a throwback to the kind of civil war that was documented in black and white.
— Hannah Beech Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
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