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Meanings of broken fence in English

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Usage of broken fence in English
1
A small stable at the village's near end had a broken fence.
Sister of the dead
2
Ori ran too, but not for the doors or the broken fence.
Iron Council
3
He sat down on a board that projected from the broken fence.
In His Steps
4
I checked his pulse as he began mumbling about fixing a broken fence.
Too close to home
5
Detective Barnett said broken fence pieces, beer bottles, and cigarettes were also found at the scene.
Radio NZ
6
Yet the strange, pallid quality of the light itself made him pause by the broken fence.
The Abandoned Room
7
To his relief he saw bayonets glinting beyond the broken fence, and patches of scarlet moving.
In the King's name
8
He came to a thick grove of trees, a broken fence, a gateway with no gate.
The Four Feathers
9
You'd better move yourself' Brendan said, climbing through the broken fence and out on to the pathway.
Complete Books of Blood
10
The children thronged to the broken fence.
A Canticle For Leibowitz
11
The wrecked car, we found, had not yet been moved, nor had the broken fence been repaired.
Guy Garrick
12
I can outsail any felon, theirs or ours!' He grinned, his uneven teeth like a broken fence.
Cross of St. George
13
Deer and coyotes got tangled in the collapsed and broken fence wire that surrounded his cedar posts.
Rain gods
14
The man was reportedly fixing a broken fence in the enclosure when he was attacked by the animals.
The South African
15
She had left her car and was walking back along the road with us toward the broken fence.
Guy Garrick
16
The crowded street, tired of tipping out little children, had tipped her mother staggering through the broken fence.
Men, Women, and Ghosts
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