Minefield is an English word with synonyms like tract or parcel. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Minefield meaning
- An area in which land mines or naval mines have been laid.
- A matter or situation presenting multiple risks, dangers, complications or difficulties.
- A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
Using Minefield
- The main meaning on this page is: An area in which land mines or naval mines have been laid. | A matter or situation presenting multiple risks, dangers, complications or difficulties. | A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
- Useful related words include: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land.
- In the example corpus, minefield often appears in combinations such as: minefield of, the minefield, minefield for.
Context around Minefield
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Minefield
- In this selection, "minefield" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, absolute, potential, imperial and full stand out and add context to how "minefield" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a potential minefield but also and a veritable minefield. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "minefield" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, abortive and acacia, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with minefield
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As everyone in the world knows, is a minefield. (9 words)
Their house is a minefield of gadgets we don't understand. (11 words)
Pronouncing place names from across the UK is sometimes an absolute minefield. (12 words)
Prasidh made a debut to forget in Centurion last December, going for 93 runs in his 20 overs in helpful conditions, and was sparingly used in his only other appearance, in Cape Town in January when India won by seven wickets on a veritable minefield. (45 words)
In an era when sexual misconduct among sports stars is rife, and dating apps are a minefield of toxic masculinity, footy players need rules for casual hook-ups, but it is their sexual partners who need protection far more than the players. (42 words)
Like a rose blooming amid a minefield, it’s a miracle that Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” exists: a south-of-the-border pop opera about a most unlikely metamorphosis and the personal redemption it awakens in a stone-cold criminal. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
As everyone in the world knows, is a minefield.
Pronouncing place names from across the UK is sometimes an absolute minefield.
The idea of entering universities, higher education, on the basis of selective course choice – if you’ve followed the news of the last 20 or 30 years, you know what a minefield that is.
Welcome to the fast-changing world of artificial intelligence – a potential minefield but also a garden of countless productivity possibilities, especially in the workplace.
When the Purrgils finally make the jump to the galaxy far, far away, Ahsoka and Huyang find themselves deposited right in the middle of a massive Imperial minefield, which has been set up to stop her arrival.
Elgar was one of three batsmen dismissed twice on the same day as the Newlands pitch became a minefield for batsmen who could never be sure they were properly set.
He would have the responsibility to not only navigate the political minefield of a contested election, with potential for street protests - but also deliver on the promises that secured him a second term.
Instead, they’ve got their metal detectors out and they’re waving them across the ground in front of them trying to find their way through the minefield they’ve created for themselves.
Like a rose blooming amid a minefield, it’s a miracle that Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” exists: a south-of-the-border pop opera about a most unlikely metamorphosis and the personal redemption it awakens in a stone-cold criminal.
Prasidh made a debut to forget in Centurion last December, going for 93 runs in his 20 overs in helpful conditions, and was sparingly used in his only other appearance, in Cape Town in January when India won by seven wickets on a veritable minefield.
Their house is a minefield of gadgets we don't understand.
The new First Minister may have to call on all that SNP goodwill and respect from other parties if he is to navigate his way through the minefield.
The soldiers came up to an area where cartel gunmen laid a minefield.
They may also want to find some group support to navigate the social minefield of the workplace.
But here is just one of a myriad conventions that turn eating into a minefield of social embarrassment —highlighted in a new book by food historian Pen Vogler.
Crisp beans mingle with rich minced pork, pungent garlic and spicy chili oil in a minefield of flavours and textures.
Erdogan seems to have found his footing, for now, in Syria, but it’s a minefield.
For daughter of a grocer Margaret Thatcher the visit was a minefield, full of hidden pitfalls and social codes that she didn’t understand and didn’t want to be part of.
Fortunately, The Umbrella Academy sidesteps the minefield of standard Season 2 stumbles to deliver another stylish romp.
In an era when sexual misconduct among sports stars is rife, and dating apps are a minefield of toxic masculinity, footy players need rules for casual hook-ups, but it is their sexual partners who need protection far more than the players.
Common combinations with minefield
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- minefield of 13×
- the minefield 12×
- minefield for 4×
- through minefield 4×
- minefield that 3×
- in minefield 3×
- minefield and 3×
- is minefield 2×
- minefield but 2×
- political minefield 2×