How to Use minefield in a Sentence

minefield

noun
Definition of minefieldnext
  • This issue is a political minefield.
  • Even the best gift cards can be a little bit of a minefield.
    — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2021
  • The rocket boosts the charge into the air, draping the line charge across the minefield.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • But as with so many things in this film — why is Penn in this minefield?
    — Miriam Elder, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Distraught Alex is on the run, and Kirsten pursues her at a sprint across the minefield.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The answer is that no one can, and by and large, the cast wisely side-steps that minefield.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Sak also found a map that the Russians had used to mark their minefields.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Surles said games like minefield expand the way children see the world.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Composing the score for a war film can be, apologies for the metaphor, a minefield.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Then there’s the utter minefield that Black women have to wade through.
    — Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 7 June 2024
  • Still, who would send their kids into such a minefield?
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • If being a Confirmed360 client is a mixed bag, working there could be a minefield.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
  • At the point where the soldiers became stranded in a minefield, south of the town of Orikhiv, Ukraine has advanced about 1 mile.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • That just feels like a whole minefield to have the author of the novel as part of a group of writers adapting the novel.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • The man with the unenviable task of guiding the princess through the minefield was Paul Heslop of the Halo Trust.
    — Max Foster, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Escapism is tough to pull off well, but tackling the current mood is a minefield.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Free agency has been a minefield for power hitters over the age of 30 the last two seasons.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • And even when the war ends, minefields could leave the land unused and unproductive for decades.
    — WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • His wish for his party is to speed through the post-Roe minefield and hope voters put it behind them.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This was Step 3 in a delicate walk across an NFL minefield.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • To get into any plot details past this point is to play hopscotch in a minefield.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • The decisions looming for the Padres offer a minefield of risk.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The score, by Stephen Sondheim, is a marvel and a minefield of layered meanings.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Mattis was taking a force of 1,200 men into the teeth of Iraqi minefields and artillery.
    — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The workplace can be a minefield for women who have children.
    — Anna Claire Vollers | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Ukraine, which has no navy to speak of, laid minefields to restrict the Russian Navy’s freedom of movement.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And the one that's really slowing the Ukrainians down are these minefields.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Black guy who can make race a little less scary to talk about, who says that humor can be a healer, not just a minefield.
    — al, 7 Mar. 2021
  • That may come in the form of uncrewed land vehicles, which could crash through Russian lines and clear the dense minefields in its way.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the conservative, God-fearing Ozarks can be a minefield.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024

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