How to Use land mine in a Sentence

land mine

noun
  • Bloomberg’s record offers land mines for all of these groups.
    — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Hex-bar dead lifts, jump rope, land mines, crunches, band curls.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Because there are traps, and there are tricks, and there are land mines.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Nor, at least right now, are there any more land mines to be avoided.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Jubair was taught how to pull the pin of a grenade and to assemble a land mine.
    — Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Artem lost his leg when a land mine exploded on the front lines in Kharkiv.
    — ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • This home was not his main compound, sources said, and the area was not studded with land mines.
    — Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s a villain getting blown up by a land mine and their body being fed to pigs.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The mountainous border is scarred with barbed wire, tank traps, land mines and guard posts.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The ninth inning revealed other land mines.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Every day presents new potential land mines.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone knew the playoff path would be littered with more land mines than past years.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The project’s hurdles should have been obvious; the area was riddled with land mines.
    — Paula Moura, ProPublica, 22 May 2019
  • Apopo says more than six million land mines may still be buried in the soil of Cambodia.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
  • 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.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Fox News, 21 June 2018
  • The Houthis, meanwhile, have laid land mines, killing and wounding civilians.
    — Ahmed Al-Haj, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
  • The Houthis, meanwhile, have laid land mines, killing and wounding civilians.
    — Ahmed Al-Haj, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
  • But, funny story, the van was full of gingerbread and land mines and a minotaur.
    — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The use of land mines by the combatants poses a constant danger.
    — Diane Cole, NPR, 19 June 2025
  • The rules will remain pending a review into the land mine issue.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The country hopes to be rid of land mines completely by 2030.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Former battlefields, the slopes still contain land mines from the Balkan wars.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Leaving the reunion with Botsford, Lardner dies when a land mine blows up his jeep.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025

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