How to Use picket fence in a Sentence

picket fence

noun

• In a kid's room, mount a section of white picket fence flanked by two small fence posts to the wall.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• The picket fence shuddered as the ground opened beneath us to take us all down.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• Not everyone wants the big family and the big house with the white picket fence.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 22 Mar. 2023
• An image of a family that was built on a man and a woman and a white picket fence.
  — Quetzal Maucci, TIME, 17 June 2024
• White picket fences served as borders around the field and trainers’ tables stood on the sidelines.
  — Ken Belson Alex Welsh, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Lead paint coated white picket fences and lead pipes pumped water into homes.
  — Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
• Other members of the suburban pantheon include picket fences, malls, and of course, the shed (which is to be awed at and never touched).
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2023
• These include balconies, roof decks, and the all-American picket fence.
  — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2023
• Your piece of modern suburbia is complete with a white picket fence.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
• The entire property is encased by a white picket fence.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2023
• Christy and Cindy have both had long marriages with children and dogs and whatever constitutes a picket fence in the Hamptons and Malibu.
  — Sally Singer, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2023
• In his films, the world of polite society — of suburban picket fences and parochial worldviews — was ripe for skewering.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• The creeping ivy of rap had crawled over their white picket fences, across their kempt green lawns, and around their Victorian homes, weakening the old walls between cultures.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
• Here, a vintage watering can is hung from twine on a picket fence to showcase seasonal flowers.
  — Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 June 2024
• The pictures are hung on a white picket fence lining the front yard in Normal Heights where the neighbors gather for the annual Independence Day ice cream social.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• To many people, the image of a nuclear family in a stand-alone house with a green lawn and white picket fence still represents a fulfillment of the American dream.
  — Jeff Kruth, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• Though these pastures, with their picket fences and imported Friesian cows, have an appeal to them, their baldness offers a sobering clarity about what's been lost.
  — Noo Saro-Wiwa, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2023
• Its minimum-eight-acre lots line the roadside behind white picket fences, creating a backdrop that has served as the setting for many car commercials.
  — Eric A. Taub, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Their one-story home, surrounded by a white picket fence and fruit trees, was demolished for the hospital expansion.
  — Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 30 May 2023
• For example, one tells of the many picket fences and trails in what was once a small town long before becoming a major tourist hub of North Texas under the leadership of the very man relaying the history.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• The clothing-optional portion, marked at either end by picket fences, offers rental beach chairs and umbrellas, as well as lifeguards.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 May 2024
• Or buy out the island The compound is surrounded by a white picket fence, as if this were just another slice of residential Americana.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Green grass with a picket fence is often considered the picture-perfect ideal for a yard, but a lawn isn't necessarily the best choice for every climate or home.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Mar. 2023
• Russia’s measures might amount to a picket fence compared to China’s Great Firewall, but the Kremlin online crackdown has gained momentum.
  — Dasha Litvinova, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The American suburb, with its neatly mown lawns and white picket fences, has long been used in pop culture as a facade of normalcy, concealing chaos and violence.
  — Emma Dibdin, ELLE, 28 Apr. 2023
• The compound is surrounded by a white picket fence, as if this were just another slice of residential Americana.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• While not suited for enclosing large acreage (or large pets), picket fences are ideal for smaller yards and suburban neighborhoods.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 26 June 2023
• Stone's leadership philosophy transcends beyond the company's glass doors to his home's white picket fences.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
• External trouble—ugly and chaotic aspects of the world beyond the Bridges’ proverbial picket fence—impinges, but only in glimpses that are subsequently tamped down, whitewashed, laundered, and soft-pedaled.
  — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024