fenceless
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a word derived from
fence.
fencenouna barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of vertical posts connected with horizontal sections of sturdy material or materials, as wood, metal, vinyl, or wire, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
Example Sentences
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Born and bred on a fenceless expanse of golden grass and red dirt in the Australian outback, where horses, dingoes and crocodiles share the land, these animals are wild enough to charge a chopper.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
She found refuge first in the countryside, riding horses bareback across the fenceless prairie, and then in the air.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2019
Most of the Kachin villagers have fled to several areas along the fenceless border including Mai Jai Yang in Kachin state, and Nongdao, Longchuan and Leiji on the Chinese side.
From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2012
Texas is the fenceless dreamland of American individualism, where the native exuberance went to herd cows and sling guns and strike oil.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On a fenceless lawn, not three feet away, stood —- —- with his hand in his right hip pocket.
From Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts