concertina

Starting last fall, federal forces began stringing hundreds of miles of concertina wire along the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

Behind the concertina wire encircling the bases, Germans could experience American bowling alleys and drive-in theaters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

The concertina wire used to barricade the road has been moved to one side and local people and flocks of sheep can be seen making their way down.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

After weeks of desperation, migrants pass a toddler under a tangle of concertina wire strung across the edge of U.S. soil.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

“He never wanted to go anywhere either. Always sitting under that elm on the hill, playing that concertina and dreaming the days away. And what happened?”

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

For the journey to London, the stand – which concertinas down into a relatively small space – will be put into an aluminium crate that regulates temperature and humidity.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

The museum, opened in October 2011, now has more than 400 accordions, flutinas, concertinas and other related artifacts, ephemera and memorabilia, dating from 1820 to the present day.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2015

Literature, she says, has the potential to give us texts in which “the experiences of the old unfold and collapse back, like concertinas, into narratives that are rarely reducible to age itself.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2015

No restaurateur or chef worth his Himalayan salt will fail to conjure up the image of the tiny, colorful village, with its exotic, weather-hardened inhabitants speaking Gaelic and playing concertinas in a musky, ancient tavern.

From Time ● Aug. 10, 2011

At the word o' command, up they go like a pair of concertinas, an' consequently collapses equally 'andy when requisite.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

Their third-floor apartment now sits at eye level, crushed under piles of concertinaed concrete slabs from the OPP 26 building in coastal Caraballeda, one of the districts hardest hit by the quakes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

"You'll end up with a concertinaed heap at the bottom."

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

In the lift, once the doors have concertinaed closed, he says cheerily to another doctor: “This young lady has come to discuss a donation her family have made to the department.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2017

One house has concertinaed to the ground, as if hit by an earthquake.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2012

But she had died, nine years ago, and his father had contracted, as if a weight had settled on him and concertinaed him downward and inward.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“The biggest issue is we have heard and read many comments about poverty and the concertinaing of wealth in fewer and fewer hands,” said Peters.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2017

Then Beetle, concertinaing his books, observed to Winton, 'When King's really on tap he's an interestin' dog.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling