How to Use razor wire in a Sentence

razor wire

noun
  • The razor wire is part of the approach.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Only, the curls of razor wire signaled this was no place of fairy tales.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The razor wire really did its job, but some of our folks didn’t do their job.
    — NBC News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The back fence was topped with razor wire, and there were coils of it in some of the branches of the tree.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Then there are the tarps—blue and white waves of plastic tarps and razor wire that wash over the hillsides.
    — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
  • It is surrounded by a chain-link fence with razor wire topping.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Its suburbs were rimmed with razor wire and humming electric fences.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But set apart across the water is a building surrounded by high walls and coils of razor wire.
    — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • In front of me was a huge encampment surrounded by razor wire.
    — Brian Goldstone, The New Republic, 26 June 2018
  • Some of the sections are topped by razor wire, and the ocean off the park is treacherous for swimmers.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The only light comes from streetlights shimmering above the razor wire.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Some Afghans who were turned away from the airport tried to kill themselves with the razor wire used to keep the crowds at bay.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Fencing and razor wire were set up around the perimeter and armed federal police stood guard.
    — Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2021
  • Behind the facility, a large parking lot is ringed with fences topped with razor wire.
    — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The killer crab-walked his way up and out of a medium-security prison, pushing through razor wire.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • While the innermost fence around the Capitol has not been removed, the razor wire on top of it has.
    — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The Army’s tent city, surrounded by razor wire, sprouted out of an empty field.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 7 July 2019
  • Scores of migrants on Wednesday again pushed toward the razor wire that marks the frontier but did not break through.
    — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In the school building, a classroom overlooked the A Block yard, which was ringed in razor wire.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • They are packed in 11 cell blocks surrounded by turrets, guard towers and walls topped with razor wire.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Nayeri cut steel bars blocking the ascent to the roof, five stories up and surrounded by razor wire.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The troops act as a support system, given tasks like hanging coils of razor wire atop border fences and in ports of entry.
    — Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Poland is building a wall of steel topped with razor wire along the border, aimed at preventing a future surge of migrants.
    — Paulina Smolinski, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The two forces are less than 100 yards apart, separated by rubble and razor wire.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Hajj Suleiman’s grave, on a barren hill, was covered with a pile of stones and fenced with razor wire to keep settlers out.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The Supreme Court had ruled that the federal government could cut through the razor wire.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 9 June 2025
  • The three people had become trapped due to razor wire blocking one of the pipe’s outlets, Cornette said.
    — Christian Martinez, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
  • The five-year-old, $240 million facility is still a jail, but no razor wire is in sight.
    — Keri Blakinger, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The camp was surrounded by a wall of Hesco bastions—large bags filled with sand—stacked two levels high and topped with razor wire.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Some fences are topped with razor wire, similar to fencing that was used in the summer to surround the White House.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021

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