How to Use war zone in a Sentence

war zone

noun
  • These could be scenes from a war zone.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • There are war zones, and there are war zones.
    — Michael J. Arlen, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Baghdad is no longer a war zone.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Trump has turned our streets into a war zone.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Trump has turned our streets into a war zone.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And the place went from looking like a war zone to a house again.
    — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Growing up in the war zone carves open eyes and ears all over your body.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 10 June 2025
  • And that's not easy in the middle of an active war zone.
    — NBC news, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Our area still looks like a war zone months after the unrest.
    — Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • But Ukraine sent ships to help get civilians out of the war zone.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The complex has housed ill or injured troops from in or out of the war zone.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Walking to and from the train was like walking through a war zone of babies.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • Flaherty likened the victims' wounds to those seen in a war zone.
    — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But that meant leaving two sons who have the same blood disorder in a war zone.
    — Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Aside from the mines, the southern part of Ukraine is very much an active war zone.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Especially a kid from a war zone.
    — Michael J. Arlen, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Mitchell notes that one of her sons survived a war zone and the other was killed in a free country.
    — Katie Zezima, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
  • Target on a Sunday morning is not a war zone.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Robots clear landmines in former war zones.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • It is deployed in active war zones, but is not used for direct combat.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Putting aside the specifics of this conflict, what is the humane way to deal with civilians in war zones?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Like a soldier who came home still dealing with the effects of being in a war zone.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In the middle of this war zone, there is this island of hope and love and decency.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2019
  • The streets still looked like a war zone, with flash-bangs detonating and clouds of tear gas in the air.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • His platoon fought in the northernmost section of the war zone.
    — Jen Fifield, azcentral, 30 June 2018
  • Tope Awotona didn't intend to get his startup off the ground in the middle of a war zone.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • At the end of the video, Kim shows the remnants of her hair war zone, which are traces of cut strands all over her car.
    — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Hall was rescued from the war zone last month and flown to a hospital in Germany.
    — Fox News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The farther away from the war zone, the more interest appears to be flagging.
    — Susi Dennison, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2023
  • At first glance, Efron is playing a version of some of his past comedic roles, a himbo in a war zone.
    — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2022

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