How to Use unfenced in a Sentence

unfenced

adjective
  • Two pit bulls were found attached to chains in the unfenced yard.
    — cleveland, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The horses turned up on the res within a week, grazing their way north on unfenced grass.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The land, unfenced, abuts a bald blackened hillside that must be public land.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Posting footage of someone walking through an unfenced front yard isn’t.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • Not even the unfenced wildlife roaming outside could disrupt our slumber.
    — Dominica Lim, CNT, 11 June 2017
  • The family’s brick home sits on an unfenced lot with a trampoline and playhouse in the backyard.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Meanwhile, almost all of those released near unfenced water survived.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
  • The women grazed their animals freely in the miles of unfenced pastures and forests surrounding these enclaves.
    — Jennie Tiderman-Österberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Jones said Gracie crossed into an unfenced area beyond an 8-foot-tall gate before wandering away from the ranch.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2026
  • Built as sister houses with combined outdoor spaces, the lots remain unfenced, and many of the landscape features have been preserved.
    — Jen Banowetz, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
  • However, the crowd, with many wearing anarchist badges and chanting against the police, marched to a nearby unfenced area instead.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
  • Only the Del Mar right-of-way remains unfenced because of the strident opposition there.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The few unfenced stretches are the only thing that brings hope to wildlife experts for the conservation of some animal populations.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2021
  • As Mumford spoke, a doe milled around in an unfenced portion of Pando, just west of the Doctor Creek campground.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Trails cut through the property and orchard with direct access to thousands of unfenced acres on Table Mountain.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2025
  • Larger animals, too, began to trickle into the unfenced plots, feasting on what remained of the pigs and the insects that coated their rotting flanks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In keeping with the rustic nature of the home and surrounding landscape, the long, winding driveway is unpaved and unfenced, and leads into a dirt motor court.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The aerial video analyzed by the network showed in up-close detail how most of the vast border remains unfenced and essentially unsecured.
    — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Dog owners in New York City are required to keep their pet on a leash no longer than six feet while in any public place, including any open or unfenced field.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021
  • Complaints include injuries, safety concerns regarding the slides, concerns about unfenced ponds nearby.
    — Gillian Stawiszynski, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
  • With ports of entry and the unfenced land in between being closely watched by federal border officials, cartels appear to be cutting back on their movements.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Across this unfenced wilderness there are just six prisons with a collective capacity for 154 prisoners.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Pinecastle Range Complex encompasses an unfenced 5,760-acre area in the middle of Ocala.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 20 June 2018
  • Rusting metal machinery and other trash protrude from eroding, unfenced tailings piles left by operators in the 1970s.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • The students — in 5th and 6th grade — were outside Willard Intermediate South in an unfenced yard when the two pit bull mixes began to attack them.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In Southern California, agents for decades were accustomed to caravans of vehicles flying through unfenced areas of the border.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Eric, who was partially deaf, had repeatedly crossed the unfenced tracks behind their house, Shawn told The Miami Herald.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • While the lodge itself is a sight to behold, offering an outdoor swimming pool, fitness center, and sprawling unfenced grounds, there’s a wealth of truly marvelous expeditions to take part in just past property limits.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The vast majority of those killed were in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, and most were pedestrians with access to open, unfenced tracks.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • As feral horses and unfenced cows meander through the plains and clouds amass and scatter with sublime indifference to human concerns, Conover merges past, present, and future into a timeless, ecstatic whole.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022

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