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Example sentences for "wire fence"

  • A barbed-wire fence, the last we were fated to meet, was stretched across each channel.

  • All of a sudden, around a lovely bend, a barbed-wire fence of four strands savagely disputed the passage.

  • There was on one side of it a stout barbed-wire fence of five strands.

  • When they did so, Gouldsmith with some men of his company and of the advanced guard had just come through a wire fence, and were within 100 yards of the ridge.

  • The advancing Company was checked by a wire fence, and there was an awkward moment till the wire was cut; then the donga was taken, and the Field Cornet and his men surrendered.

  • And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is--the barbed-wire fence.

  • That night we donks were picketed to a rickety, barbed-wire fence, and the men pitched the tent close by, cooked, and went to bed early.

  • Suddenly, wwhile chuckling over a joke, we donks walked slam-bang against a barbed-wire fence, throwing the men into a rage.

  • Then at the word we rushed the embankment, plunged into a ditch, swung to the left, some of us across a wire fence, and prepared to advance and annihilate a bunch of the enemy that we saw before us.

  • Then came urgent work on our part, till now, as we halt, the platoon leader is telling us that we are to go forward over a wire fence, deploy behind a stone wall, and wait for the field battery to shell the enemy.

  • To find a decent place to sleep that night I crawled under a barbed-wire fence, thinking it led into some field.

  • Warburton knew that the animal could not make the barb-wire fence again, so he waltzed him along till he found a break in the wire.

  • And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is--the barbed-wire fence.

  • On the ride to the Antelope viaduct he had noted a three-wire fence similar to this paralleling the right-of-way for several miles.

  • Perhaps an hour later, still pushing ahead, Alex strode full tilt into a barb-wire fence.

  • I've fixed up an office in the barn, and am sending for a mile through a wire fence, to bridge the cut.

  • She crouched there, her face twitching as the Maxim overhead rattled, and the clamour and shrieking outside, coming from the direction of the slope and barbed-wire fence, seemed to grow nearer and louder.

  • At any rate, from where I was I could see, quite plainly, the bullets tearing up the ground near the end of the barbed-wire fence, some two hundred yards this side of where the Baluchis were crossing it.

  • Men who put themselves within a strong barbed-wire fence, and remember Hammersmith balls only by the talk of miners about sluice-boxes, should not be allowed to possess such articles.

  • And a miss is as good as a mile, or a barbed-wire fence, only so long as she keeps her figure down and her diet up.

  • But what science can know the destiny of the pins and pins and pins, and what is the oblivion which swallows that great army of street-walking women whose cheeks are too pink and who dwell outside the barbed-wire fence of respectability?

  • That is what usually happens to a colt that gets his leg broken, and having heard of several that had suffered in this way--or was it that they had a tendon cut on a wire fence?

  • Red Cow, has discovered that even a wire fence can't stand the pressure of a little over half a ton of muscular beef.

  • The race went on in absolute silence until they reached the wire fence at the road.

  • Would your readers please say, also, if any of them have had any experience in fox-hunting, what is the best treatment for a horse which has injured himself on a barbed-wire fence while in rapid pursuit of the fox?

  • Nothing is more embarrassing to the true sportsman than to see his favorite horse ripped open by a barbed-wire fence while in full chase, and then not know which digestive organ should go back first, or when they have all been replaced.

  • We got down to the river road and climbed over the fence and got under the bob-wire fence on the other side of the road and went through the cornfield.

  • The water had come up and covered it up to the tops of the bob-wire fence posts.

  • There was a bob-wire fence and we had rowed right on top of one of the posts and stuck there, on a nail or something, and the post was loose in the mud and gave when we rowed, so we couldn't wrench loose by rowing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wire fence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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