war zone
noun
1
: a zone in which belligerents are waging war
broadly
: an area marked by extreme violence
2
: a designated area especially on the high seas within which rights of neutrals are not respected by a belligerent nation in time of war
Examples of war zone in a Sentence
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The Ukrainian delegation presented demands of their own: an immediate cease-fire and the establishment of humanitarian corridors that would allow civilians to safely leave the war zone.
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Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
In the war zone, the most popular of these open-source control radio protocols is ExpressLRS, or ELRS.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
Now to her ultimate dismay, the war zone has come to her home turf, and Lee confronts an existential dread over how her efforts to catalog the carnage overseas has failed to prevent America from following the same path.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
Lee has a panic attack during the third act war zone.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
Participants got close enough to the war zone to hear automatic gunfire, but could not enter Gaza for safety reasons.
—The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2024
The war is still top of mind for the staff and patrons at Veselka, many of whom have loved ones back in the war zone.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
To work in a war zone, aid agencies rely on a process called deconfliction, which allows the military to take measures to prevent unintentional attacks against aid workers, who are protected by international humanitarian law.
—Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
The evacuation of their son was part of a growing number of hasty and ad hoc departures from Haiti, which has been convulsed by a surge of gang violence that has turned parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, into a war zone and has shut down the main airport.
—David C. Adams, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
In the war zone, the most popular of these open-source control radio protocols is ExpressLRS, or ELRS.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2024
Now to her ultimate dismay, the war zone has come to her home turf, and Lee confronts an existential dread over how her efforts to catalog the carnage overseas has failed to prevent America from following the same path.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
Lee has a panic attack during the third act war zone.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
Participants got close enough to the war zone to hear automatic gunfire, but could not enter Gaza for safety reasons.
—The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2024
The war is still top of mind for the staff and patrons at Veselka, many of whom have loved ones back in the war zone.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
To work in a war zone, aid agencies rely on a process called deconfliction, which allows the military to take measures to prevent unintentional attacks against aid workers, who are protected by international humanitarian law.
—Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2024
The evacuation of their son was part of a growing number of hasty and ad hoc departures from Haiti, which has been convulsed by a surge of gang violence that has turned parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, into a war zone and has shut down the main airport.
—David C. Adams, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
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“War zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20zone. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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