FENCING in a Sentence

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223 example sentences for FENCING, such as:

1. He kicked a hole in the fence.
2. Cut the bushes even with the fence.
3. The dog made a leap over the fence.
4. A high fence ringed the prison camp.
5. He hurdled a fence and went into her yard.

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 Meanings and Examples of FENCING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fencing
 n.  a barrier that serves to enclose an area
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
2  He reflected that this coalition of four young, brave, enterprising, and active men ought to have some other object than swaggering walks, fencing lessons, and practical jokes, more or less witty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
3  All three remounted their horses, and set out at a good pace, while Porthos was promising his adversary to perforate him with all the thrusts known in the fencing schools.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
4  I sought out the best fencing master in Paris, I made an agreement with him to take a lesson every day, and every day for a year I took that lesson.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
5  Athos fenced with as much calmness and method as if he had been practicing in a fencing school.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
6  A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  She remembered visions of herself as a smart married woman in a drawing-room, fencing with clever men.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
9  Patch was superimposed upon patch, and, in place of a roof, one hut had a piece of wooden fencing, while its crumbling window-frames were stayed with sticks purloined from the barin's barn.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
10  On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, and fencing from the village.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
11  Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
12  , fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cook, and Charles Leboucher.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 39. The Guests.
13  Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
14  He is smooth-faced and brown, and is fencing up his pigs.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  They turned in at the gate and passed under the shaded knoll where, enclosed in a low fence, the Frome grave-stones slanted at crazy angles through the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
17  Every tree, wall and fence stood out against dazzling white fields.
18  He repaired the fence he had broken and made his peace with the neighbor on whose property it stood.
19  You can't sit on the fence any longer - you have decide whose side you're on.
20  The gap in the fence was just wide enough for the sheep to get through.
21  He hurdled a fence and went into her yard.
22  The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
23  A high fence ringed the prison camp.
24  The dog leapt forward,but it failed to clear the fence.
25  Cut the bushes even with the fence.
26  The dog made a leap over the fence.
27  The cattle got out of the field through an opening in the fence.
28  Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
29  Protesters cut a hole in the perimeter fence.
30  He kicked a hole in the fence.