minefield

IPA: mˈaɪnfiɫd

An area in which land mines or naval mines have been laid.
(by extension) A dangerous situation.
(cricket) A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
A quiz without right of mistake.

mine field

IPA: mˈaɪnfˈiɫd

This makes fidelity a mine-field for those in the public domain.
There was no way to get out of the mine-field if the engine failed.
The mine-field was activated and searchlights swept and probed the waters.
And how come he had dared venture, so soon, into the mine-field of Torah and Koran?
Franklin there is no doubt in my mind that Viveros-Fauné voluntarily walked into a mine-field.
(That is, if they can make it through the mine-field of voter fraud that maimed them in the last two elections.)
I understand the potential mine-field of trying to shoe-horn FACE-like experimental results even onto same-species ring-width series.
I loved the way the whole house galvanized against his whimpering pity-tactics and trod all over his pitted emotional mine-field, even if it sort-of backfired against them in the end.
Between the professional attractions, the ones for kids at zoos and museums, and the abandoned buildings bought up by charitable organizations, Pittsburgh, home of the zombie, is a mine-field of folks jumping out and going âbooâ!
Cameras are attached to their Humvees and carried in their hands as they take us on a mind-molesting mine-field of monotony that turns into an eruption of violence and leaves viewers sitting as anxious as nervous fingers on a loaded gun.