Examples of 'no-man's land' in a sentence

Meaning of "no-man's land"

No-man's land refers to an unoccupied or uninhabited area, often found between two opposing forces or regions. Historically, it has been used to describe a disputed territory or a dangerous area that is heavily contested.
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The hydrogen balloon would drift over no-man's land to land in the enemy trenches.
Many accounts of the battle involve one or more football matches played in no-man's land.
A vast no-man's land of deserts that stretch westward to the borders of Central Asia.
The platformisation of work has as consequence that a new industry exits into a legal no-man's land.
It 's a rundown piece of no-man's land in the middle of a tourist paradise.
What this means is I am now somewhere between these two time zones in no-man's land.
This is a no-man's land which separates the two countries.
A combined force of tanks and paratroopers crossed no-man's land near the Mandelbaum Gate.
It was in the no-man's land between the countryside and the city.
We are also concerned about the fact that Southern Libya has become a no-man's land.
In the no-man's land between those who enforce the law.
Measures aim to annex settlements to city and turn Palestinian areas into no-man's land.
Between each lot there is a no-man's land strip … disguised by a hedge or by a ditch.
I figured even if my film career is in no-man's land.
Any unauthorized person in this no-man's land could be shot without question.

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It starts to feel like you are in no-man's land.
There was a no-man's land ( area separating the positions between combatants ) which was a valley.
The court would be in a judicial no-man's land.
In reality, the area became a no-man's land and was raided repeatedly by both sides.
The area surrounding it is now a no-man's land.
Bosnia, lying in between, remained a no-man's land due to its mountainous terrain and poor communications.
With great difficulty he crossed no-man's land.
Then you are into the buffer, the no-man's land between my property and the neighbour 's.
This whole area is pretty much a no-man's land.
A frozen no-man's land at the end of the Earth.
Their homes and businesses are in a kind of no-man's land.
When the vehicle coasts to a stop in no-man's land a laugh is harder to generate!
Fortunately there were no walls but it put me in no-man's land.
His has been a trip through no-man's land for quite some time.
Now there was a weird silence across the no-man's land.
You want me to sit in No-Man's Land painting pictures of the Germans?
The area was for some time an embattled no-man's land.
They have been dumped into a no-man's land in the mountains of southern Lebanon.
We had walked across what was known before as no-man's land.
This whole area is pretty much a no-man's land since the Iran-Iraq war.
False horses, camouflage to allow snipers a place to hide in no-man's land.
On the other side of this no-man's land lies France.
Budanova managed to put out the fire and force landed in no-man's land.
At night, Palestinian refugees enter no-man's land to draw water from a well.
Do not mind the tiny man flying through the middle of no-man's land.
Namibia 's Skeleton Coast is a no-man's land of starkly spectacular proportions.
Any land that is not fenced is regarded as no-man's land.
Terminal City is a twenty-block no-man's land here in the heart of Seattle.
Often girl geeks fall into this odd no-man's land.
We are all living in that no-man's land between Christmas and New Year 's.
Well, the kid was held on a federal material witness warrant in a legal no-man's land.
We need these floods to hold off or no-man's land will become a sea.
The regulatory regime Governments are today caught in a regulatory no-man's land.
This famous Berlin landmark landed in a no-man's land after the Wall was built.
This man waves a white cloth, calls out and walks straight across no-man's land.

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The hydrogen balloon would drift over no-man's land to land in the enemy trenches
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