concertina
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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
A gate in the barrier opened and Border Patrol, Marines and Army officials showed reporters how both fences were now sheathed in concertina wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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
They see sunlight one hour a day, when they are allowed into an outdoor area surrounded by a fence topped with concertina wire.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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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
Accordions and concertinas are very beautiful to me, when played by artists like these girls, and by such as Joe Cawthorne, and Grock.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
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 particular cost saver is time: the gap from finished design to finished product is concertinaed into hours, rather than months as the 3D fabricator makes many components in to one united piece.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2013
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
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“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
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