sunk fence

noun

Definition of sunk fencenext
as in ditch

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  1. ditch
  2. moat
  3. trench
  4. gutter
Noun
  • During the interview with police, the couple admitted to disposing of the child’s body in a ditch in Mequon before arriving in Chicago.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • According to police accounts: The case began in 1959, when a child’s bones were found in a ditch off Davis Road in Mequon, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee and about a five-hour’s drive from Houghton in the Upper Peninsula.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of ditch
Noun
  • China has a strategic focus on becoming self-sufficient in semiconductor production, but ASML has built an insurmountable moat in this space.
    GuruFocus, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In the domestic market, they are caught in a red ocean of homogenized competition, hoping to use brands and IPs as a moat to find a way out.
    Li Jun, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of moat
Noun
  • For your next evening out on the town, use Hailey’s outfit formula—layer lace tights beneath a semi-sheer skirt, and add a leather trench on top.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Based in New York, the 40-year-old Floridian has been in the content creator trenches for nearly two decades.
    Allegra Rosenberg, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of trench
Noun
  • There were no nukes screaming across the open sea to knock our planet’s assembly of nations into history’s gutters of Armageddon.
    Will Cady, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Walz, 60, the governor of Minnesota, was tapped by Harris as her running mate in part because of his blue-collar appeal – a happy-go-lucky, flannel-wearing former high school teacher and football coach, who is cast as the everyday dad, fixing a car and repairing house gutters in campaign videos.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of gutter
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