Minefields in a sentence

Anti-tank minefields can be scattered with anti-personnel mines to make clearing them manually more time-consuming; and anti-personnel minefields are scattered with anti-tank mines to prevent the use of armored vehicles to clear them quickly.

Artillery and aircraft scatterable mines allow minefields to be placed in front of moving formations of enemy units, including the reinforcement of minefields or other obstacles that have been breached by enemy engineers.

Most forces carefully record the location and disposition of their own minefields, because warning signs can be destroyed or removed, and minefields should eventually be cleared.

Axis forces had laid vast minefields that would impede troops, and clearing the fields had to be done quickly to avoid losing momentum.

But the city is full of memories for Jenny and potential minefields for Erin and Blair’s own relationships.

Despite its name, the DMZ is one of the most fortified places on earth, replete with minefields and barbed-wire fences.

If you know where the narrow TM-62 minefields are, it shouldn’t be hard to avoid them.

Over the summer, Ukraine had pivoted from the tactic of leading with armored vehicles — including tanks and personnel carriers donated by Western allies — to sending infantry first to clear minefields and trenches.

The line is thousands of kilometres long and the number of minefields along it has not been determined, Hiznay said.

They said Russian forces were in a precarious state but warned that Moscow’s defensive lines in Ukraine were “potentially formidable” and guarded by “extensive minefields”.

Ukrainian officials have said in the past week that their forces have managed to push past Russia’s first line of defences but now confronted further lines in areas where Moscow has had time to build up fortifications and minefields.

As 1944 opened, then, the Allies were up against the formidable Gustav Line of German defence: a mass of wire entanglements, minefields, bunkers and booby traps, woven into a giant chain of mountains and river valleys that stretched the width of Italy.

But it’s the Russians who are dying by the hundred in doomed assaults across minefields around the muddy fishing hamlet and adjacent forest plantations.

It enabled them to penetrate minefields and harbor defenses.

It’s a lazy cartoon coincidence that Dr. Blight’s ship both took off from and crash-landed into separate minefields, but it hammers home what seems to be the episode’s main thesis regarding the horrors of landmines.

Hundreds of prisoners didn’t make it out of the camp, but 300 or so did, under fire, and then only to face minefields.

One nonprofit that clears land mines, a UK-based organization named Halo, relies on Google Earth for aerial images of minefields.

He deployed cunning strategies like planting fake minefields and getting his soldiers to pretend to avoid non-existent barbed wire while moving between trenches.

He explained the importance of clearing the remaining minefields to make the region a safe place for children, farmers, and the entire population.

They took us over the border at night time through minefields, dodging army checkpoints.