How to Use killing field in a Sentence

killing field

noun
  • There are guns in the suburbs and in rural areas, and yet the suburbs aren't killing fields.
    — John Kass, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Even as vast parts of his country fell from his control or turned into killing fields, Assad kept his core regime in place.
    — Sarah El Deeb, The Seattle Times, 13 Apr. 2019
  • But one major blunder that turned the shoreline into a killing field was shockingly basic.
    — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • His neighbor was the first to identify him, recognizing the unshaven face of a man who had watched his beloved street become a killing field.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The province had been one enormous killing field, and there was nothing neat and tidy about the aftermath of a B-52 strike.
    — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Once popular with tech workers and young families, Bucha became a killing field as Russia sought to seize the capital.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2022
  • Suddenly, noble visions of war preserved by paintings and statues were replaced by the awful reality of killing fields.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2018
  • And so, as the Khmer Rouge continued to fertilize the killing fields with the corpses of his countrymen, Toek Tik slipped away and went on the run.
    — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026
  • Private pleas for Biden to show some heart were simply an inadequate response to the killing fields of Gaza, which anyone with eyes could recognize as a genocide.
    — Book Marks october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Another a Cambodian grandmother of eight who fled Pol Pot’s killing fields as a girl nearly 50 years ago.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Ten years later, even those who have never set foot near Newtown, Connecticut, can conjure the scene painted by police of a first-grade classroom turned into a killing field.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Nine years later, even those who have never set foot near Newtown, Connecticut, can conjure the scene painted by police of a first-grade classroom turned into a killing field.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
  • My mother and father were fortunate to have survived the killing fields of Cambodia and to have emigrated to America.
    — James Kuo, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • One of the earliest images is of a tractor, plowing through dark loam and unearthing an artillery shell, presumably from the killing fields of the First World War.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 5 July 2010
  • The fighting in Bucha intensified, and with Russian troops turning the city into a killing field, the family tried to flee by car on March 5.
    — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Iranian aircraft are sustaining Syria's killing fields and setting the stage for escalation against Israel.
    — chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • After helping exhume graves in Srebrenica, one of the most notorious killing fields of the Balkans war, Peccerelli testified during the tribunal at the Hague.
    — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • As places of mass starvation and disease, and eventually of deportation to the death camps and killing fields, however, the Nazi ghettos bore little in common with the original Italian ghettos beyond the name.
    — Daniel B. Schwartz, Time, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Heidenreich took the stand during the second day of testimony in the murder trial of Bampumim Teixeira, 33, who is accused of killing Field and Bolaños.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • So when the horrors of Russia's invasion of Ukraine play out in full view, when a Kyiv suburb is turned into a killing field, when a missile strikes a train terminal packed with people trying to flee the war, there's a powerful impulse for justice.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 10 Apr. 2022

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