Example Sentences

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For the more perfect welfare state can flourish only in a well-fenced world that brakes the influx of competing people and products.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service and given the run of 150 acres of well-fenced Texas marsh.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is better, in all cases, to separate the rams from all the other sheep at the time of shearing, and to inclose them in a field which is particularly well-fenced.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert

A well-fenced yard was at the back of the dwelling, and enclosed the wood-pile, stable, and hen and storehouses.

From The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Sedgwick, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley

"Very beautiful and well-fenced cities they are, worthy refuges of souls that merit salvation."

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman