- present participle of fence.
fencing
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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
On Monday, McFarlane and two friends were outside the fencing, leaning against the metal barriers in front of the Department of Agriculture, which faces the National Mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
By the end of the week, the multicolored water had largely turned clear and fencing had started to go up around it in preparation for the July 4 fireworks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The fridge seemed to be made out of car parts, while the oven seemed a mix of wrought-iron fencing and safety glass.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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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 Fischer, Anton Otto
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 Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.
From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington
These word fencings had begun, of course, as a child would naturally have begun them, with the stilted sentences and high-flown remarks which she had lifted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Carlyle, Thomas
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