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fence

[fens] / fɛns /






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If the dog jumped the fence and dinged the neighbors’ cars, “you wouldn’t shake your head and lament about how the dog/whacker system had ‘gone rogue’ ” he observed.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

It was the woman in the crowd by the entrance, leaning on a rustic fence post, barfing up a whole lot of apples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

After losing their Solano County home to wildfire in 2020, the couple rebuilt with a steel fence, an aluminum patio pergola and a roughly 10-foot concrete and rock buffer around their new house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

A man and a woman were seen outside the fence, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

He buttoned it up over his hoodie, grabbed his backpack, and then slipped out the back door and jumped the fence.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Saturday's blaze "spread rapidly due to high winds" and had torn through the fences of the base, the Municipal District of Wainwright said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Then there was a rupture in the relationship and Musk departed, although they seem to have mended fences.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Rende's company in North Jackson, Ohio, makes and distributes aluminum building products used in fixtures like fences.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sealed borders with fences, walls and land mines to prevent citizens from escaping to South Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then it rushed madly across about twenty fields, breaking down all the fences and hedges in its path.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

On a recent Sunday, resident Filiberto Reyes thought his beloved husky had once again gotten out of the fenced front yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Their sites are bare ground, fenced off from the outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It is fenced in and gilded, with literal gold.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The team had tested public land around former landfill or industrial sites, she emphasised, rather than fenced off areas.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

As I passed by Ed I was sure he would acknowledge how well I had just fenced, but I didn’t even get so much as a pat on the back from him.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

The protective fencing around the nesting ground was washed away in high tides earlier this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Homendy said she walked the path of destruction, seeing the tire marks cut through the grass outside the runway—and navigation equipment, air bags and fencing strewn over the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners gave conceptual approval to the perimeter fencing project in October, earmarking $2.3 million for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

It was a very nice-looking boy, about the same age as Abby, helping a man roll out some green mesh fencing.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein


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