Example Sentences

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A single-sided, fencelike facade, they separate Mandela from the other dancers but don’t actually enclose him, so some of his imprisonment has to be supplied by a viewer’s imagination.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2022

The males of several species observe the female examining their work while half-hidden behind a tree or some fencelike part of the bower.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2017