- present participle of fence.
fencing
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Ron Hernandez, coach and vice president of Metro Little League, said that the city locked up the dugouts and installed some metal fencing to prevent access to the baseball fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The protest involved dozens of people walking on public footpaths and then going through a gap in the metal fencing around the site to access the private land.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Homendy said she walked the path of destruction, seeing the tire marks cut through the grass outside the runway—and navigation equipment, air bags and fencing strewn over the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
A factory stood on a hill to one side, the field below filled with flimsy buildings arranged in a square, fencing and razor wire strung around the perimeter.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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The long low stable buildings, the tall white masts and bright yellow flags, numberless white-painted cages, aviaries, outhouses, and the spotless white of the fencings and gateways, all lend it a pleasing individuality.
From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various
His blockings, hedgings, and fencings have spoiled the expanse of hillside and vale in much the same manner as in Albion.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?
From The White Desert by Anton Otto Fischer
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
A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
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