Sentence examples for fencing from inspiring English sources

The word "fencing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "fencing" to describe the sport of fencing (sword fighting) as well as physical fencing, such as a wooden fence around a property. For example, "Andrew is a champion fencer and has built a tall wooden fence around his garden."

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fencing

verb

Present participle of fence

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Maybe they'll be sucking the oil from under our land – that's not really fair, is it?" Another few hundred metres down the road and Elaine Gover, who has lived in the area all her life, watched another truck of fencing material rumble towards the drilling site, as a news helicopter clattered overhead, with a more sanguine air.

Duane junior has just started a conservation project that involves fencing off large areas of riverbank where turtles lay their eggs.

He and the other Universal proteges, including Rock Hudson, were trained in acting, fencing, riding and dancing.

The only activity on Thursday was the sudden arrival of teams of fencing contractors, sent out to erect a bigger fence around the area in the wake of the publicity and to field queries at the roadside gate.

One is the not-yet-complete barrier that the Israelis have been building to stop Palestinians entering Israel from the West Bank; it cuts deep into Palestinian territory in order to protect Jewish settlements there and is fencing Palestinians into shrinking enclaves in which a Palestinian state would suffocate.

Senator Shurden compares gamecock boxing to "fencing in the Olympics".

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Ring-fencing the NHS budget was a brilliant wheeze for the election.

But, the power differential and the ring-fencing of any dissenting voice makes constructive criticism impossible.

It was concerns about ring-fencing of liabilities, particularly in the United States, that held up Andersen's talks with other rivals, Ernst & Young and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Ring-fencing is worth a try, but in a crisis its neat boundaries may be ditched to stabilise the system.That is why the heavy work must be done by banks' capital buffers.

Ring-fencing is going out of fashion, and some banks are thinking of using derivatives to hedge against future market declines.

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