Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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They have long feelers and will fence with you.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
One security expert warned that companies in high-profile fields should assume that they will be targeted and hacked – and build systems that will fence sensitive data off from each other.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2013
When you are alone it will sit by your side and whisper in your ear, when you are in the crowd it will fence you about with aloofness.
From The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore
If a throstle sing he falls straight a-capering; he will fence with his own shadow; if I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.
From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
I will take you under Government protection; I will build you a house; I will fence you much land; I will give you cattle, horses, mules, and farming implements.
From Geronimo's Story of His Life by Geronimo
