How to Use chain-link fence in a Sentence

chain-link fence

noun
  • Neal approached the chain-link fence and locked eyes with the dog.
    Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 23 June 2020
  • The man jumped over a chain-link fence in a Crestway Drive yard.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
  • As the group peered through a chain-link fence, a pickup truck sped up the road and blocked the group in.
    David Gelles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The owner of the pit bulls said her dogs pushed open the chain-link fence gate in her yard.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The walkway was lined on each side by a chain-link fence and a green rail.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The man had climbed on the outside of the chain-link fence barrier.
    Tricia Escobedo, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • Some of the facade was torn off her home and her chain-link fence was bent.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Across the road was an encampment of tents and lean-tos along a chain-link fence.
    CBS News, 6 July 2024
  • He, like most growers, had to put up chain-link fences and hire a guard.
    Mark Stevenson, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Turns out, the cat was wedged between a chain-link fence and a building.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Video shows the dog lying by itself behind a chain-link fence on the edge of the cliff.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • Part of the black chain-link fence around the playground appears to have been forced down some time ago.
    Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • On the other side of a chain-link fence, wet towels slouch on sun loungers.
    Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • In the 1980s, though, some unknown party had built a chain-link fence across it.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Since then, the block has sat quiet behind a chain-link fence.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Lady ran out the back of the home and began jumping against a chain-link fence, King said.
    Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
  • On the perimeter of the campus, the wind drove heavy debris into a chain-link fence.
    Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The man had climbed onto the outside of the chain-link fence barrier.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • The road to the Kentucky Derby is lined on both sides with rented chain-link fence.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2020
  • It was encircled by a chain-link fence topped in barbed wire.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • Hundreds of people watched through a chain-link fence behind one of the field’s end zones.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Normani and her dancers hang off a chain-link fence, twerking.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Not shown in the footage is Singleton tossing his firearm, a Glock 17, by the chain-link fence, Davis said.
    Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Across the street, near a vacant lot bordered by a chain-link fence, three men lined a bench, watching the scene.
    Alexandra Ma, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
  • So far, Trump's turned out the White House lights, hid in a bunker, and is now building an ugly chain-link fence.
    TheWeek, 5 June 2020
  • For now, the land sits vacant, surrounded by a chain-link fence.
    Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Along the high horizon line is an oily black line of trees, and behind that, a high chain-link fence against a pale red sky.
    Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The Homestead center has tall chain-link fences, massive white tents and rows of bunk beds.
    Ana Radelat, courant.com, 12 July 2019
  • The chain-link fence near the bullpens came down, too, and the old minor-league clubhouse suffered roof damage.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2022
  • As the pint-size pole vaulters swing their legs and stretch their hamstrings, their parents hang out in the grass on the other side of the chain-link fence.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021

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