- present participle of fence.
fencing
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Nearby fields were littered with broken deckchairs, scraps of fiberglass insulation and pieces of wire fencing ripped apart by the fierce winds that struck the village and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It’s mostly like, my kid saw this movie, or I love this character. It’s the stories around fencing that bring people in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Everyone was extremely friendly and on the fashion front, no popped collars in sight — only gym clothes and cool-looking fencing gear: mask, chest protector and underarm protector.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
There was the high-school fencing coach from New Jersey and the aerospace engineer from Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Here I’d been so thankful that Uncle Chester had laid in the fencing supplies.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
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
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
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
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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