How to Use picket fence in a Sentence

picket fence

noun
  • Two parents, a dog and a white picket fence.
    — Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The white picket fence becomes a gate to keep others out.
    — Sharareh Drury, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
  • The picket fence shuddered as the ground opened beneath us to take us all down.
    — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • In a kid's room, mount a section of white picket fence flanked by two small fence posts to the wall.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Lead paint coated white picket fences and lead pipes pumped water into homes.
    — Rachel Silverman Bonnifield, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2024
  • White picket fences lead down to the pool house, where an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room, and cold plunge await.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 June 2025
  • White picket fences lead down to the pool house, where an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room, and cold plunge await.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 28 May 2026
  • An image of a family that was built on a man and a woman and a white picket fence.
    — Quetzal Maucci, TIME, 17 June 2024
  • Gortenburg was about 15, 20 feet from the yard’s picket fence.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Pine trees and white picket fences guide guests to a locker room area which is made to look like a street at the foot of a ski slope.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Not everyone wants the big family and the big house with the white picket fence.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Your piece of modern suburbia is complete with a white picket fence.
    — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 20 June 2023
  • Inevitably, our discussions turn to what else might draw us onward, if not the white picket fence.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • White picket fences served as borders around the field and trainers’ tables stood on the sidelines.
    — Ken Belson Alex Welsh, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The tunnel is still here under the tracks, but now there’s a brick path leading to it and a white picket fence along the way.
    — Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
  • We’re trained to make a lot of money, accrue more things and and get all the white picket fence stuff that you’re supposed to have.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Firefighters were seen catching their breath outside a white picket fence.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Shauna drives to her final destination, a neat white house with a picket fence.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ellie broke up with her ex only a few weeks before her wedding due to him cheating and wants the white picket fence life.
    — Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There's more to these American suburbs than white picket fences and large backyards.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2024
  • The home is encircled by a white picket fence, but this residence is far from cookie-cutter.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2025
  • These include balconies, roof decks, and the all-American picket fence.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Here, a vintage watering can is hung from twine on a picket fence to showcase seasonal flowers.
    — Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2021
  • But behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts are secrets.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2025
  • This street of stucco houses with little front yards and picket fences bordered on a kind of no-man’s-land filled with junk yards and warehouses.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Alongside a classic white picket fence, a path of green boxwood and white columbines leads to the next exuberant scene in the garden.
    — Teresa Woodard, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Rivas Hernandez's home has a white picket fence around the front yard and plants and flowers lining a walkway.
    — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Other members of the suburban pantheon include picket fences, malls, and of course, the shed (which is to be awed at and never touched).
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • Free-flowing and self-seeding plants greet visitors at the picket fence, then envelop the backyard in lush beauty.
    — Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • In his films, the world of polite society — of suburban picket fences and parochial worldviews — was ripe for skewering.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'picket fence.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: