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
- But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
- But it's worth noting that Wood delivers Spooner's final description of the barren no man's land with such exaggerated portent that it could easily be a leg-pull.
- in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression
- British and German troops climbed out of the trenches to play soccer in no man's land.
- And the bad news about this is that, what that means is the homes that are right between the primary levee and the secondary levee, if the water overtops the first, and the mud levee stops the second, that means any homes right in the middle -- and it looks like just one long row of homes, they'd be in no man's land. CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2009
- Broadway these days is a no man's land for new musicals, and a museum, a mausoleum, for old ones.
- We quickly sped away from Fremont and into industrial no man's land.
- Historically, the region has always been known as the borderlands, a sort of no man's land of some 65 million people stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, people whose identities have been confused and sometimes willfully distorted by the ebb and flow of competing empires. Trouble Next Door
- According to our author, who foresaw "No Man's Land" between the two opposing forces, "there will be formed a certain zone absolutely impassable in consequence of the terrible fire with which it will be inundated from a short distance from each side. Face to Face with Kaiserism
- WHEN I met Scott, I was somewhere between the before and after picture - in a no man's land called cosmetology school. NYT > Home Page
