Sentence examples for towering fences from inspiring English sources

The play takes place over the course of several months, as the members of the committee gather to put into effect Martin's ambitious plans, which grow to include still more towering fences topped with barbed wire, regular monitoring of all entrances and exits in Bluebell Hill, and even a set of stocks.

She led me out the door, turning and walking along the prison's vicious, towering fence.

Trauma injuries caused by attempts to climb towering security fences in order to board trains and lorries heading across the Channel are also common.

But some American Christians want torture, drones, bombs, boots on the ground, tons of guns, stop and frisks, shows of force and towering electric fences, because they are an oddly frightened, distressed moral majority for people who supposedly believe without doubt in an omnipotent, all-powerful God who will deliver them.

A related promotional effort can be seen at Education Department headquarters here, where little red schoolhouses, complete with bell towers, fences and "No Child Left Behind" across their facades, now frame the building's entrances.

A towering wooden fence, fifteen feet high and a half mile long, runs across the north side of Point Hope, built by the borough to protect against winds that descend from the North Pole.

— On an embankment that runs along a towering steel fence separating this border town from its Mexican sister city, a patch of new concrete with a date carved into it stands out, marking the exit of a tunnel Border Patrol agents sealed in May.

To make the site safe, the federal government has insisted that the gas generator towers be fenced off so people can't climb on them and walk through them.

It was not a cohesive barrier but a jumble of obstacles – a chain-link fence stretching out in the distance on one end, a towering steel-beam fence directly behind the pumphouse with a vehicle-entry gate and an old concrete chest-high wall at the other end.

The batting coach stood behind the towering chain-link fence, more than 100 feet from his pupil.

A towering razor wire fence separates the jungle from the approach road to the ferry port and it is getting harder for migrants to get on to trucks but during wildcat strikes by ferry workers in Calais three weeks ago many attempted to do so.