How to Use unfenced in a Sentence

unfenced

adjective
  • Two pit bulls were found attached to chains in the unfenced yard.
    cleveland, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The horses turned up on the res within a week, grazing their way north on unfenced grass.
    Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Agents also learned that cars were sneaking into the U.S. in new unfenced places.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2020
  • As Mumford spoke, a doe milled around in an unfenced portion of Pando, just west of the Doctor Creek campground.
    Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The family’s brick home sits on an unfenced lot with a trampoline and playhouse in the backyard.
    Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Posting footage of someone walking through an unfenced front yard isn’t.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • Stretches of unfenced land lead down to the water; wizened tree roots and matted grasses create resting points along the shore.
    Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Not even the unfenced wildlife roaming outside could disrupt our slumber.
    Dominica Lim, CNT, 11 June 2017
  • The women grazed their animals freely in the miles of unfenced pastures and forests surrounding these enclaves.
    Jennie Tiderman-Österberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Dog owners in New York City are required to keep their pet on a leash no longer than six feet while in any public place, including any open or unfenced field.
    Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021
  • Only the Del Mar right-of-way remains unfenced because of the strident opposition there.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The students — in 5th and 6th grade — were outside Willard Intermediate South in an unfenced yard when the two pit bull mixes began to attack them.
    Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In keeping with the rustic nature of the home and surrounding landscape, the long, winding driveway is unpaved and unfenced, and leads into a dirt motor court.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Pinecastle Range Complex encompasses an unfenced 5,760-acre area in the middle of Ocala.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 June 2018
  • However, the crowd, with many wearing anarchist badges and chanting against the police, marched to a nearby unfenced area instead.
    Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Built as sister houses with combined outdoor spaces, the lots remain unfenced, and many of the landscape features have been preserved.
    Jen Banowetz, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
  • Larger animals, too, began to trickle into the unfenced plots, feasting on what remained of the pigs and the insects that coated their rotting flanks.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The few unfenced stretches are the only thing that brings hope to wildlife experts for the conservation of some animal populations.
    Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The aerial video analyzed by the network showed in up-close detail how most of the vast border remains unfenced and essentially unsecured.
    Anne Ryman, azcentral, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, almost all of those released near unfenced water survived.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
  • All rooms are done in bright-colored local fabrics and have private balconies overlooking the unfenced Zambezi National Park.
    Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2017
  • With ports of entry and the unfenced land in between being closely watched by federal border officials, cartels appear to be cutting back on their movements.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2020
  • In Miramar — which is connected to the rest of Wellington by a large, unfenced isthmus and is home to tens of thousands of people — the department has worked with local volunteers to eliminate possums, weasels and brown rats.
    New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • The fourth-year junior organized workouts with receivers at the unfenced band practice field before workouts at the Alabama football compound were allowed.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The Trump administration did not install a single mile of wall in a previously unfenced part of the border in its first 30 months in office, instead focusing on replacement projects.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Across this unfenced wilderness there are just six prisons with a collective capacity for 154 prisoners.
    Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
  • As the dogs learned not to chase their charge, conservationists placed this gregarious canine known for guarding sheep near the bandicoot in two unfenced farmland areas in the bandicoot’s historical range, west of Melbourne.
    Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • As feral horses and unfenced cows meander through the plains and clouds amass and scatter with sublime indifference to human concerns, Conover merges past, present, and future into a timeless, ecstatic whole.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Rusting metal machinery and other trash protrude from eroding, unfenced tailings piles left by operators in the 1970s.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • In Southern California, agents for decades were accustomed to caravans of vehicles flying through unfenced areas of the border.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2020

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