- present participle of fence.
fencing
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City workers came to clean up the fencing this week, and it was the first time she’s seen a single step taken on the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It added, “The rush to complete the project led to hasty and botched work that was not remediated before the project was finished and the fencing removed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to visit the frontier zone on Wednesday, where workers have in recent weeks taken down the old chain-link fencing between Gibraltar and Spain.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
You wouldn't know the hub was here because the outdoor space for basketball, chess and boxing is blocked off by high steel fencing.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“You’re fencing saber not épée,” Coach Mustilli shouted.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
The air, which had before been charged with little suspicions, toy fencings, as it were, between people of no great importance, was now informed with something more pressing, more imminent, more real.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Ha! ha! my dearest," thought he, "I knew, notwithstanding all your beautiful startings and fencings, that matters would come to this.
From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
Preventive fencings with the foul intent Occult, by him observed and foiled betimes, Let fool historians chronicle as crimes.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
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