How to Use battleground in a Sentence

battleground

noun
  • The home screen is the hottest battleground now.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • Late-night, then as now, has been a battleground.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Make a classroom feel like a battleground.
    — Carlos Rivas Jr, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • The race for the seat is expected to be tight in the battleground state.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 29 July 2025
  • Blue Nile has gone from a sideshow to a central battleground.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026
  • In Senate battleground states, the group’s ads have been hard to avoid.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • This isn't the first battleground state election the twins have dropped into.
    — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025
  • Trump received 48% of the votes in the battleground state four years ago.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But in those seven key battleground states, which could go either way, the race is a dead heat.
    — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The stands at sporting events sometimes feel like battlegrounds.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Trump won the battleground state by just over 1 percentage point.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But the former truck driver can feel left out when elections roll around in this battleground state.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Africa isn’t on the radar and isn’t seen as an urgent battleground in the tech war with China.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • These are battleground state voters.
    — Russ Feingold, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • If the shower is the battleground, invest in a caddy.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In recent years, airport lounges have become a high-stakes battleground.
    — AFAR Media, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The two battleground districts are linked by freeways on either side of the valley.
    — Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • That won’t play well with the suburban voters both parties need to win in battleground states.
    — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
  • There’s a new battleground for consumer wearables.
    — Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • All of these firms were part of teams that won Senate races in serious battleground states.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But some people get so anxious about it that bedtime becomes a battleground.
    — Amanda Schupak, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Those brief ads are targeting about four dozen battleground districts that the group believes can be flipped.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • New York, because of its size and influence, was a key battleground state.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026
  • The cache area was a real battleground, with trees, brush, small vegetation, earth, and snow all plowed up.
    — Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The retail battleground just shifted again.
    — Fayez Mohamood, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This time around, the economy – and the rising cost of living – is likely to be the key battleground.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But the most important ones to look out for are two other battleground states, the states that will decide the election.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Adult life has a stress problem, and the desk drawer has become its unlikely battleground.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
  • Key races in battleground states could determine or flip those majorities.
    — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • School boards become culture-war battlegrounds.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026

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