FENCING in a Sentence

Learn FENCING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
223 example sentences for FENCING, such as:
1. He wormed his way under the fence.
2. My friend threw the ball back over the fence.
3. A cat was walking along the top of the fence.
4. I did a bit of fencing while I was at college.
5. A white fence picketed the yard on three sides.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FENCING
fencing
 n.  material for building fences
 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)
1  I did a bit of fencing while I was at college.
2  The governor was an expert at fencing with reporters.
3  They ended up ripping down perimeter fencing and tussling with the security staff.
4  Garden Adventure will be pleased to supply and fit garden fencing to your specification.
5  If this country has an insatiable need for Mexico's drugs, it's only due to federal negligence in fencing and securing our borders.
6  Villagers say the fence would restrict public access to the hills.
7  A cat was walking along the top of the fence.
8  The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
9  Prisoners were forbidden to approach the fence under pain of death.
10  The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area, supporting a plant or forming part of a fence.
11  My friend threw the ball back over the fence.
12  The ball skipped off Bonds' glove and bounced toward the fence.
13  He wormed his way under the fence.
14  A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.
15  A white fence picketed the yard on three sides.