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    Use "minefield" in a sentence

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    minefield


    1. ESC … what does that mean? It’s going to take you years to negotiate this minefield, Kara, you idiot! She hadn’t felt as helpless as this for some considerable time …


    2. Ken loved his son and did his best to welcome his new step-daughter into their lives, treading carefully and methodically through the minefield laid out before him by a new wife with strange new ways, by his own teenage son and by a new teenage daughter, about whom he knew very little


    3. through the minefield laid out before him by a new wife with


    4. “Of course I got scared, I don’t live in a minefield, used to be


    5. Thrilled not to have to pick her way through the minefield of that conversation, she quickly agreed


    6. The amount of violence during a rescue attempt is a legal minefield because Hostage Rescue Units are subject to the law of the land and the flag under which they serve


    7. I felt that there might be a minefield in that question, if only I could see it


    8. However, all that bullshit on the phone paid off and we learned that Novorski was sponsoring the fair - a highly prestigious event considering the amount of vomit already visible - and had been scheduled to appear right about midnight, say a couple of words to the gathered crowd and then probably go back to counting cotton balls in his well-guarded warehouse complex, complete with electric fences, a minefield, and a piranha-filled moat, with trained alligators for guards, riding sharks armed with lasers and rocket jets


    9. Is there a map I could use? I wouldn’t want to end up in a minefield or something now, would I?” he said and smiled, while the manager found the joke lacking and simply gave Ethan a shoddy, trodden piece of paper that was a rough drawing of the relative locations of the hotel, the river, the city center and the harbor


    10. that knowledge you have cut through the jargon minefield and found up to 20 end-to-

    11. "Because it's surrounded by a huge minefield," said Sarah


    12. a minefield, I feared every move I made could have been my


    13. As they travelled around the protected delta area, Siri could see that the entire perimeter was defended by the same system of minefield, tank traps, fence etc


    14. around with a little booklet that was a minefield of information about drilling


    15. search of his boxers, which he eventually found amongst a minefield


    16. Angie Dickinson waited for the first truck to be less than 300 meters from the entrance of the town and to be 150 meters short of the minefield she had dug in and alongside the road before opening fire


    17. The second was permanently patrolled by British cruisers, and the third was very narrow owing to the ice pack and a British minefield


    18. The six old destroyers from Harwich now launched their attack; they were also slower than the German ships and had to risk going through a minefield to intercept them


    19. The British destroyers by this time had worked their way through the minefield, but never got within striking distance of the German ships


    20. My conclusion, after reading Jung, is that separating them is a minefield, one not easily traversed, no matter how good your detection equipment

    21. At times it was like walking through a minefield


    22. “Check the calendar,” said Wilx as he hit the brakes, barely avoiding collision with a minefield of boiled proto-stars placed at the end of corridor 973L


    23. defend Dr Williams, said the archbishop had been entering a minefield and


    24. � Such childhood friendships can make the playground a field of competition, recrimination, "best friend," "worst friend," "I don't like you" minefield of emotional turmoil


    25. So far, he had learned that Salenko was visiting all the people from his college background that were now in the minefield of Russian politics


    26. On top was an elevation of a treeless waterfront, your typical urban minefield, but overlaid with a transparent dream-city: green meadows studded with retail kiosks, mansarded condos with hanging gardens, two beaming office towers, and that stadium she’d seen a model for at New Year’s


    27. Oddly enough, it was Omaha, Nebraska’s Warren Buffett who cleared a path for me through this minefield


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    "minefield" definitions

    a region in which explosives mines have been placed