Sentence examples for on minefields from inspiring English sources
During the Persian Gulf war in 1991, the Marines dropped 254 of the bombs on minefields and Iraqi soldiers in trenches.
One of the unlucky inhabitants had told the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which issued a report on the facility, that these conditions made life there like "walking on minefields" because so many inmates were frustrated or angry.
While you can't always count on minefields being marked, you should definitely stay away from those that are.
And yet for many single, sexually-active young women with STIs, navigating the dating world can feel, at best, like a delicate dance; at worst, a full-on minefield. .
The Balkan state's 22,000 square miles reflect some of the tensions: here and there posters of white skulls on red backgrounds warn of minefields.
Her family may well have felt betrayed by the ruthlessly cleareyed daughter's impression of a dangerous, unruly childhood of minefields and malaria, on a succession of impoverished tobacco and cattle farms in war-torn Kenya, Rhodesia, Botswana, Malawi and Zambia in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
Once you step on one of these minefields, you become mentally wounded and disabled.
Despite its name the DMZ is a heavily militarised area and peppered with minefields on both sides.
Frankly, the whole experience of being waited on is a minefield – one false move and you'll never get a window table in this joint again.
The ship then loaded refugees and left Swinemünde; she successfully navigated the minefields on the way to Kiel, arriving on 18 March.
The zone, a neutral area bisecting the Korean Peninsula that was created to keep the rival Korean armies apart after the war, is guarded on both sides by minefields, barbed wire, tank traps and two million battle-ready troops.
