sunk fence

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noun

a wall or other barrier set in a ditch to divide lands without marring the landscape.

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Origin of sunk fence

First recorded in 1755–65

Words nearby sunk fence

sun hemp, sunk, sunken, sunken garden, sunket, sunk fence, Sun King, sunk relief, sunlamp, sunless, sun letter

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How to use sunk fence in a sentence

Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
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I have the unique advantage of seeing this from both sides of the fence.
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At this point, he became Tom Sawyer, letting his musical compatriots—and the folk tradition—help paint his musical fence.
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But what about the screams, the salty puddles, and big empty packages of frozen fish lying on the ground outside the fence?
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On Thursday, Leyland fled her home after a photographer snapped her photo from behind her garden fence.
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He was contemporary with Milton, and preferred before him by critics of the day, but has now sunk into oblivion.
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Alessandro walked at the horses' heads, his face sunk on his breast, his eyes fixed on the ground.
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I saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
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Another fence: who would furnish that two hundred and fifty dollars and secure him for the remainder?
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His search has always hitherto been fruitless, and he has sunk back, disheartened, into the sea.
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British Dictionary definitions for sunk fence

sunk fence

noun

a ditch, one side of which is made into a retaining wall so as to enclose an area of land while remaining hidden in the total landscapeAlso called: ha-ha

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