NOUN
- an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
- land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
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the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression
but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal
How To Use no man's land In A Sentence
- He thinks to himself that, if it were not for war, he would not be about to go off and kill the fellow just like himself in the trenches on the other side of no man's land, but would be sitting down and having a drink with the man.
- No man's land is less than a mile wide and contains a handful of stalls selling fish and caviar. Times, Sunday Times
- He is a citizen without a country, trapped in a no man's land of fast food outlets and endless shopping opportunities.
- As a sniper, he spent most of his time between the lines of trenches, in ‘No Man's Land ’, hunting other snipers.
- Earth from the ditch was piled into a second wall, and in the large No Man's Land which existed inside these siegeworks no tree or object tall enough to serve as a battering ram was left standing. Fortune's Favorites
- They have backed off their original positions but can't bring themselves to re-employ Bush's so they're left in no man's land, having no alternatives to turn to. Bin Laden should go to Gitmo, Grassley says
- The men on either side of no man's land had much cultural hinterland in common, notably football. Times, Sunday Times
- I was left stranded in no man's land with constant Mujahedin gunfire strafing overhead. CODE BREAKER
- The men on either side of no man's land had much cultural hinterland in common, notably football. Times, Sunday Times
- Instead of facing a firing squad, however, they were abandoned in no man's land so that they would be killed by crossfire.
