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Definition of "no-man's-land" []

  • Alternative spelling of no man's land. (noun)

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Use "no-man's-land" in a sentence
  • "In two days, two square miles of wood-framed houses among the trees, built on steep slopes and narrow, winding roads to capture the great views of San Francisco, had been reduced to a no-man's-land of white ash and crumbled debris, pierced by dark spikes of leafless tree trunks among surviving stone steps and totemic chimney towers."
  • "Look no further than the Seven Years War of 1756 to 1763 and the Ranger unit raised by Robert Rogers that engaged in the no-man's-land bordered by Lake George and Lake Champlain."
  • "Park planners have long worried that St. Nicholas Park, a 23-acre swath of green that runs north-to-south alongside the campus of City College of New York, had become a dodgy no-man's-land after daylight hours and had been looking to add more positive, public use to it."
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