How to Use war zone in a Sentence

war zone

noun

• Kyiv felt like a war zone for the first time since April.
  — Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
• By the spring of 1976, the city of Boston had become a kind of war zone.
  — Faith Salie, CBS News, 18 June 2023
• Ukrainians at least were able to flee from the war zone.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
• And the place went from looking like a war zone to a house again.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2021
• Gaza in the next two years is (going to be) a war zone.
  — Dana Karni, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
• But Ukraine sent ships to help get civilians out of the war zone.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• Face-to-face polling in a war zone comes with severe risks.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 21 Mar. 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
• Aside from the mines, the southern part of Ukraine is very much an active war zone.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The war is still top of mind for the staff and patrons at Veselka, many of whom have loved ones back in the war zone.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The United States has one of the world's highest rates of firearms deaths outside a war zone.
  — Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• Our area still looks like a war zone months after the unrest.
  — Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• Most reporters learn the tools of the trade on the job: school-board meeting, campaign trail, war zone.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• The actor referred to his childhood as a war zone at times.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 22 June 2022
• Belgorod is about 25 miles from the war zone, so Rincón is counting the days to be able to leave.
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2022
• Flaherty likened the victims' wounds to those seen in a war zone.
  — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2019
• Secret Service does advances in the White House, throughout the world, on the streets of war zones.
  — ABC News, 14 July 2024
• But that meant leaving two sons who have the same blood disorder in a war zone.
  — Omar Abdel-Baqui, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• The farther away from the war zone, the more interest appears to be flagging.
  — Susi Dennison, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2023
• Now Quintana, 35, plans to travel into the war zone to find his son.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Still a teenager, Mr. McCann watched as the city around him became a war zone.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• 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
• Sneaking the leader of the free world into an active war zone in Ukraine isn't easy.
  — Nancy Cordes, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
• What are a group of Smithies doing in a war zone dressed up as Father Christmas?
  — Denise Davidson Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
• Safety is also a concern, to ensure edtech projects aren’t putting student data at risk in a war zone.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 29 Dec. 2024
• The four-term Hawaii congresswoman is a veteran with three deployments to war zones in the Middle East and Africa.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025