fence in
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In a Feb. 14 letter to the crew’s families after the second extension was announced, he wrote that he had expected to be home within weeks, fixing the fence in his backyard.
Chesterton’s parable: If you stumble on a fence in the middle of the road, don’t take it down until you know why it’s there.
It soon rendered fields impossible to plough, as lines of the goblet-shaped bushes, many of them three feet across, formed impenetrable natural fences in the paths of tractors.
A tree also fell on a fence in Santa Rosa.
From Los Angeles Times
The East Germans were building walls across the most heavily populated areas but stuck with fences in other places.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
