land mine
nounDefinition of land mine
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Synonyms for land mine
Synonyms
booby trap, catch, catch-22, gimmick, gotcha, hitch, joker, pitfall, snag
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The coalition’s foes, northern rebels known as Houthis, are accused of planting land mines, shelling cities, and deploying child soldiers. — Sudarsan Raghavan, BostonGlobe.com, "US, Britain, France abetting possible war crimes in Yemen, says UN report," 3 Sep. 2019 Real quick: our Tuesday night poetry slam has been bumped from 7 P.M. to 8 P.M. to make room for our new workshop on defusing a land mine. — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, "Our Coffee Shop Is Now Also a Chocolate Boutique, a B.D.S.M. Dungeon, and a Tiger Sanctuary," 17 Aug. 2019 Cora came up with the creative solution, the rover role, masterfully navigating the land mines in the Red Sox bullpen by supplementing it with the starters. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "Complacency a familiar tune these days at Fenway Park," 1 Aug. 2019 Pompeii isn’t the only Italian site littered with unexploded bombs, artillery shells, land mines and grenades. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "Pompeii Is Home to Multiple Undetonated World War II Bombs," 11 July 2019 Angola might be a buyer, as that country looks to reintroduce elephant populations into wildlife areas where land mines have been removed. — Doug Criss, CNN, "5 things to know for June 26: Mueller, immigration, 2020 Dems, population, Zimbabwe," 26 June 2019 Efforts to clean up bombs, artillery shells, land mines, grenades, and other unexploded ordnance in Italy started in 1946. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Unexploded World War II bombs may still be buried at Pompeii," 8 July 2019 Coupled with land mines laid by the Houthis to defend the city, aid workers fear civilians are bearing the brunt of the offensive. — Farnaz Fassihi, WSJ, "Intensified Yemen Attacks Complicate U.S. Peace Plans," 9 Nov. 2018 Back then the highway outside Bama was littered with land mines and flanked by largely vacant villages occupied or used by Boko Haram as bases to spring attacks. — New York Times, "A Homecoming for Nigerians Who Fled Militants. All That’s Missing Is the ‘Home.’," 10 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'land mine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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