fence - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • erect: I tried to erect a fence around the issue.
  • mend: Not a pleasant chap, but a shrewd politician who stabilized the Crown, and was able to mend fences.
  • electrify: The fearless Rusby tried to retrive one of them failing to notice the electrified fence until he made contact with it.
  • jump: We could have someone jumping a fence at Aintree, or taking a throw-in at the Cup final.
  • climb: They want to climb the fence, they want to go outside the boundaries.

Converse of subject

  • enclose: The outside is decorated with flowers in the summer ( enclosed by a fence to keep the sheep out ).

Adjective modifier

  • barbed: During the chase they are likely to be involved in road or rail accidents, or injure themselves in quarry or barbed wire fences.
  • electric: He is hoping that the electric fence they are erecting will keep the foxes at bay.
  • wooden: Cross driveway & continue ahead on footpath uphill with wooden fence on right.

Preposition: along

  • waterfront: They later brought a crane in to move boats back into the water, and started work on a fence along the waterfront.

Noun used with modifier

  • perimeter: No waste material should be allowed to accumulate anywhere in the premises, at the perimeter fence or on the roofs.
  • picket: You are passing houses, trees, picket fences or whatever is in the street.
  • wire: A 1m high mesh wire fence will be erected around the camping area where there are no natural barriers.
  • barbed-wire: How did money, the global link between isolated human lives, become at the same time a barbed-wire fence between them?
  • chain-link: They had two miles of chain-link fence hand made in Kathmandu.
  • palisade: A 1.8 meter high palisade fence will be erected between the rear gardens of each property.

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