How to Use minefield in a Sentence

minefield

noun

• This issue is a political minefield.
• Even the best gift cards can be a little bit of a minefield.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2021
• The rocket boosts the charge into the air, draping the line charge across the minefield.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• But as with so many things in this film — why is Penn in this minefield?
  — Miriam Elder, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
• Distraught Alex is on the run, and Kirsten pursues her at a sprint across the minefield.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• The answer is that no one can, and by and large, the cast wisely side-steps that minefield.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• Sak also found a map that the Russians had used to mark their minefields.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Surles said games like minefield expand the way children see the world.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
• Composing the score for a war film can be, apologies for the metaphor, a minefield.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2023
• Then there’s the utter minefield that Black women have to wade through.
  — Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 7 June 2024
• Still, who would send their kids into such a minefield?
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• If being a Confirmed360 client is a mixed bag, working there could be a minefield.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
• At the point where the soldiers became stranded in a minefield, south of the town of Orikhiv, Ukraine has advanced about 1 mile.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• That just feels like a whole minefield to have the author of the novel as part of a group of writers adapting the novel.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• The man with the unenviable task of guiding the princess through the minefield was Paul Heslop of the Halo Trust.
  — Max Foster, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
• Escapism is tough to pull off well, but tackling the current mood is a minefield.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
• Free agency has been a minefield for power hitters over the age of 30 the last two seasons.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• And even when the war ends, minefields could leave the land unused and unproductive for decades.
  — WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
• His wish for his party is to speed through the post-Roe minefield and hope voters put it behind them.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• This was Step 3 in a delicate walk across an NFL minefield.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 1 Nov. 2020
• To get into any plot details past this point is to play hopscotch in a minefield.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• The decisions looming for the Padres offer a minefield of risk.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• The score, by Stephen Sondheim, is a marvel and a minefield of layered meanings.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• Mattis was taking a force of 1,200 men into the teeth of Iraqi minefields and artillery.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2019
• The workplace can be a minefield for women who have children.
  — Anna Claire Vollers | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2019
• Ukraine, which has no navy to speak of, laid minefields to restrict the Russian Navy’s freedom of movement.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• And the one that's really slowing the Ukrainians down are these minefields.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• That will be half the battle for the former Barcelona manager, and one likely to be played out in the minefield of the Spanish press.
  — SI.com, 10 July 2018
• And then, there’s Ben, whose return to Grey Sloan continues to be a minefield of insecurities.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
• The external sector is its own minefield for PBOC officials.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024