How to Use enclosure in a Sentence

enclosure

noun
  • During the day the horses are kept in an enclosure.
  • One of the enclosures was a photograph.
  • Guests may see them in the enclosure or poking over the fence in Audubon Park.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
  • When placed in tanks, goldfish become stressed because of how small their enclosure is.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Corian shower enclosure in my home has been easy to keep clean for years.
    Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Deer grass plants were replaced in the prairie dog enclosure after the animals dug up and ate the first ones planted.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The enclosure was divided into six rooms, each of which was further divided into four cells.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The multitude was marched under guard through a barbed wire enclosure leading into Babi Yar.
    Jeffrey Veidlinger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • So a staff member moves into the 17-year-old elephant’s enclosure with him each night, sleeping beside him to comfort him from any loud bangs.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Invader keeps the space neat and dry by leaving the shower hookup outside, with an optional privacy enclosure.
    New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Once the bird was cleaned and its injuries had healed sufficiently, it was placed in an outdoor enclosure at WHS.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The snow around the clearing appeared to have been sculpted into a sort of enclosure that contained 12-15 whitetail deer.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2022
  • At each check-in, the team also randomly selected 100 flies from each enclosure and sequenced their entire genomes.
    Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The sheriff's office stated that the attack took place after the man made his way inside an unauthorized area of the tiger enclosure at the Naples Zoo and started to either feed or pet the big cat.
    Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • In the clip, the ape taps on the glass of its enclosure and points at the human baby.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2023
  • The zoo says Ben crawled through a mesh hole in his enclosure.
    Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The family had claimed an enclosure at the back of the garage.
    James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Last Tuesday, the bird was found dead in its enclosure, per the Post.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The 4-year-old bear, Ben, fled the outdoor enclosure at 1 p.m., the zoo said in a news release.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Enough so that some of the Zoo's sea lions were able to leave their enclosure and swim around the zoo!
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Staff traversed the dirt roads to the enclosures in golf carts and pickup trucks.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Feelings are hurt and then mended like the fences around the sheep enclosure.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The zipper enclosure is sturdy and tucked away for a clean look.
    Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And so, on Monday, staff went to retrieve the owl from its enclosure.
    Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The vast crowd is visible through the enclosure, all around you, from the rugby field to the upper decks.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Xiao Qi Ji and Tian Tian lay on the outskirts of their enclosure and played with zoo staff.
    Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Xin Bao relaxed in her enclosure, and Yun Chuan chomped on some leaves.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • The audience looms on three sides of their enclosure; on the fourth is the ominous black wall of a two-way mirror.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The cats were all in their bunk beds, each enclosure warmed by a little coal chimney.
    Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The inmates also helped clear out some of the enclosures at the sanctuary, Williams said.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023

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