How to Use chain-link fence in a Sentence

chain-link fence

noun
  • The car bent a chain-link fence and left tire ruts in the grass.
    — Fatima Hussein, Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Neal approached the chain-link fence and locked eyes with the dog.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 23 June 2020
  • But the two-story high chain-link fence stood in the way.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The walkway was lined on each side by a chain-link fence and a green rail.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Some of the facade was torn off her home and her chain-link fence was bent.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • It was encircled by a chain-link fence topped in barbed wire.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • Since then, the block has sat quiet behind a chain-link fence.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Normani and her dancers hang off a chain-link fence, twerking.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The owner of the pit bulls said her dogs pushed open the chain-link fence gate in her yard.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Turns out, the cat was wedged between a chain-link fence and a building.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2021
  • On the other side of a chain-link fence, wet towels slouch on sun loungers.
    — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • Across the road was an encampment of tents and lean-tos along a chain-link fence.
    — CBS News, 6 July 2024
  • As the group peered through a chain-link fence, a pickup truck sped up the road and blocked the group in.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The man jumped over a chain-link fence in a Crestway Drive yard.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The man had climbed on the outside of the chain-link fence barrier.
    — Tricia Escobedo, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • The lot was surrounded by mature maple trees and a chain-link fence.
    — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Our guide simply opened the chain-link fence and led us into the ruins.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, GQ, 14 June 2018
  • For now, the land sits vacant, surrounded by a chain-link fence.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The chubby hands of younger siblings gripping the chain-link fence.
    — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 21 May 2016
  • Part of the black chain-link fence around the playground appears to have been forced down some time ago.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Deer are proficient jumpers so a 4-foot-tall chain-link fence won’t do the trick.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Just beyond this mess, a chain-link fence encircled the site of the lodge.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Video shows the dog lying by itself behind a chain-link fence on the edge of the cliff.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • Hundreds of people watched through a chain-link fence behind one of the field’s end zones.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The man had climbed onto the outside of the chain-link fence barrier.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • On the perimeter of the campus, the wind drove heavy debris into a chain-link fence.
    — Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The chain-link fence that wraps the site has been wrapped in tarps, the kind many people used to keep their homes dry on the streets.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The large snake was wrapped around a chain-link fence in East Potomac Park.
    — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • Her body was found in a lot on Del Rosa Avenue by a chain-link fence.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
  • It is surrounded by a chain-link fence and sits across from a row of two-story stucco homes.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

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