ENCLOSURE in a Sentence

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46 example sentences for ENCLOSURE, such as:

1. Life always a dream or a frenzy, inside an enclosure.
2. She turned and walked away across the enclosure to the gate, and was hidden by the bank.
3. As the drag drew up in the enclosure near the grand stand I glanced at the card to see the entries.
4. Harriet died peacefully in her enclosure at a zoo in northern Australia where she was the star attraction.
5. One side of the corral was a high wall, and in the enclosure on the other side of the wall were the lung patients.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENCLOSURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enclosure
 n.  place where animals are kept
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  The form of the enclosure was an oblong square, save that the corners were considerably rounded off, in order to afford more convenience for the spectators.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  This enclosure was formed on a piece of level ground adjoining to the Preceptory, which had been levelled with care, for the exercise of military and chivalrous sports.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  Round the near horizon went the haze, opalescent with frost and smoke, and on the top lay the small blue sky; so that it was like being inside an enclosure, always inside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  Life always a dream or a frenzy, inside an enclosure.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  He waited in his customary manner by walking round the enclosure and idling by the pool, for Wildeve was never asked into the house by his proud though condescending mistress.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
6  When she reached the corner of the enclosure, where the steps were formed for mounting the boundary bank, she sprang up with a lightness which seemed strange after her listless movement towards the well.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
7  From her elevated position the exhausted woman could perceive the roof of the house below, and the garden and the whole enclosure of the little domicile.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
8  She turned and walked away across the enclosure to the gate, and was hidden by the bank.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
9  Eustacia opened her umbrella and went out from the enclosure by the steps over the bank, after which she was beyond all danger of being perceived.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
10  As the drag drew up in the enclosure near the grand stand I glanced at the card to see the entries.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
11  As I spoke a powerful bay horse swept out from the weighing enclosure and cantered past us, bearing on its back the well-known black and red of the Colonel.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
12  Ever since I have been in these parts I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and seeing no one but that child who helps me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
13  The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
14  Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure and helped the young ones to clamber through the breach.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
15  When these men were re-united, one of them lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered the enclosure in which the shanty stood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
Example Sentence:
1  Harriet died peacefully in her enclosure at a zoo in northern Australia where she was the star attraction.
2  Molly made her debut weighing 70kg and was walking around her enclosure within half an hour, said a zoo spokesperson.
3  One side of the corral was a high wall, and in the enclosure on the other side of the wall were the lung patients.