How to Use chain-link fence in a Sentence

chain-link fence

noun
  • The car bent a chain-link fence and left tire ruts in the grass.
    Fatima Hussein, Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2017
  • 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 large snake was wrapped around a chain-link fence in East Potomac Park.
    Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • 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
  • Installing 6-foot-high chain-link fence from behind the plate to the dugouts along the first- and third-base lines.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • The site of the shootings — the 1200 building — still stands, cordoned off by a chain-link fence.
    Fox News, 30 July 2018
  • The chain-link fence that wraps the site has been wrapped in tarps, the kind many people used to keep their homes dry on the streets.
    Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Her body was found in a lot on Del Rosa Avenue by a chain-link fence.
    Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
  • 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
  • The chubby hands of younger siblings gripping the chain-link fence.
    Maria Polletta, azcentral, 21 May 2016
  • 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
  • Our guide simply opened the chain-link fence and led us into the ruins.
    Laura Itzkowitz, GQ, 14 June 2018
  • The road to the Kentucky Derby is lined on both sides with rented chain-link fence.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Sue Freeman, 70, of Venice, has a chain-link fence to keep her dog from roaming.
    Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
  • Currently, the building is open to the elements and protected by a chain-link fence.
    Jeremy Duda, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Eight bulls escaped from a rodeo after plowing through a chain-link fence in Massachusetts on Sunday.
    Felicia Alvarez, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2024

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