How To Use Picket fence In A Sentence

  • Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper.
  • He'll happily party for five days, literally, but I know Jo will end up very content with a nice little home and if not a picket fence than perhaps some shrubbery.
  • Emerald-green hills are dotted with old stone churches, one-room schoolhouses and white cottages ringed by picket fences and tidy flowerbeds.
  • He says: 'Most people think their food still comes from a little farm with a red barn and white picket fence. The Sun
  • She screamed in confusion as our rental car lurched through a very real white picket fence, careening down a hill and into an orchard.
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  • They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan 's teeth.
  • Most of the places we looked at were 19th-century timber-framed houses with picket fences. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some shot straight up like a picket fence, others spiked violently to one side like a backslash.
  • Simply add a white picket fence. Times, Sunday Times
  • I slowed down to a dawdle and left my property, trailing my fingertips along the white picket fence next door.
  • As an adolescent of maybe ten or eleven, I remember crying in bed because I never thought I'd be able to have the life I wanted — the picket fence, the marriage, the children.
  • Or Richard Garey, a 30-year Twain impersonator, who at the moment is leaning on the white picket fence outside the author's boyhood home, his ice cream suit impeccable, his bushy white hair stiff with hairspray. Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again
  • There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
  • This term involves seeking and entering into relationships and marriage with a different perspective from the traditional vision of just happening to meet and fall in love with “the one” and living happily ever after with a white picket fence and 2.3 kids. First Comes Marriage
  • There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
  • They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan 's teeth.
  • The cemetery was surrounded by a white picket fence, maybe seventy yards square.
  • Among the groomed inkberry hedgerows and white picket fences of Provincetown's West End sits the rambling Cape Cod-style Red Inn. The hotel's eight rooms are traditional, with wide-plank ceilings, pine floors, and wrought-iron beds. CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
  • A patch of real grass framed by a white picket fence has appeared between platforms at London Euston. Times, Sunday Times
  • As an adolescent of maybe ten or eleven, I remember crying in bed because I never thought I'd be able to have the life I wanted — the picket fence, the marriage, the children.
  • Because here, amid the sea air and white picket fences, the hips sway to a different rhythm. The Sun
  • I know the abyss is there, but the picket fence stops me stumbling in by accident. We, Who Need Such Great Mysteries | Her Bad Mother
  • In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn.
  • There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
  • Over the years, many films have taken a dark look at the supposedly perfect ideal of a white picket fence, a little house, and a nuclear family.
  • The white picket fences were gone but were replaced with bricks and decorative stones that bordered the colorful flower beds.
  • There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
  • Up ahead were gentle country hills, picket fences - and what looked like breastworks and fortifications.
  • With just some meager splotches of blue peeking through billowy cumulus clouds, I'm not sure I'd call this photo "colorful," yet it's difficult not to be struck by the multihued white picket fence, a study of light and shadow optimistically evocative, says Ms. Lyden, of "The American Dream. Trained Toward the Heavens
  • The manicured roses in their beds by the white picket fence were showing lips of pink on their buds, and the wisteria was a cascade of lavender. Corpse in the Camera
  • Simply add a white picket fence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because here, amid the sea air and white picket fences, the hips sway to a different rhythm. The Sun
  • It's no longer mum and dad and the picket fence. The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
  • Think of this device as a picket fence between the viewer and the screen. The liquid-crystal sheet—in technical terms, a pi-cell—forms vertical black stripes that move rapidly from left to right.
  • I hopped over the short picket fence surrounding our garden, onto the sidewalk and ran as fast as I could towards the bus stop.
  • Harking back to the Ozzie-and-Harriet world of white picket fences and Chevy-driving Crest-using Republican-voting white-bread-eating version of America as some vision of America today is just plain whacked. May 2006
  • In a flash, Creed was out of the jeep and creeping past foliage and tree-trunks towards the beginning of the picket fence.
  • Lillesand is a beautiful little town full of wooden houses with white picket fences and gardens overflowing with roses.
  • I need to find a normal, nice girl who is looking for a life companion, kids, the white picket fence...
  • The wholesomeness of industrial society during this epoch was captured by the American economist and Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman, in his memorable image of a picket fence.
  • Honey suckle edged the white picket fence and roses, swarmed by busy bees filled the gardens with paths of white pebbles.
  • Is the picket fence the wrong size? Times, Sunday Times
  • The picket fence that once enclosed the lawn was gone, too, and people just drove their cars right up to the porch.
  • Outside, to the west of the house, there is a gravelled patio surrounded by euphorbia beds, two-block built outhouses and a timber shed, while to the east is a lawn area edged with a white picket fence.
  • the fleecy care"; of fishes as "the scaly tribe"; and of a picket fence as a "spiculated paling. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • Today the concept of a pedestrian-friendly, densely built community of wood-frame cottages with front porches and picket fences hardly seems avant-garde.
  • We do have a corner lot with a quaint picket fence running along it so we string lights on there.
  • There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
  • Get creative with a picket fence and have diagonal pales nailed to the horizontal boards.
  • A little boy on a tricycle darted out in front of them from behind a white picket fence but quickly turned and pedaled away when he noticed them standing above him.
  • It doesn't always have to be the picket fence and the dog. The Sun
  • She says communal living suits her better than any white picket fence in the suburbs could.
  • From a distance they gave the appearance of a low gray picket fence on top of which a long swath of green brocade had been spread. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • Lush grass surrounded the edge of the pit, which was circled by a white picket fence.
  • A patch of real grass framed by a white picket fence has appeared between platforms at London Euston. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was hard to disagree, although this documentary didn't ask any of the questions that could have cast a shadow over the white picket fence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are any Cubans getting through this so-called picket fence to U.S. territorial waters? Briefing By Perry Reno And Tarnoff On Cuban Refugees
  • It doesn't always have to be the picket fence and the dog. The Sun
  • Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper.
  • It's no longer mum and dad and the picket fence. The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
  • Most of the places we looked at were 19th-century timber-framed houses with picket fences. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their lily-pad leaves and bright orange, yellow, or red flowers ramble over picket fences and along the ground.
  • However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
  • It was hard to disagree, although this documentary didn't ask any of the questions that could have cast a shadow over the white picket fence. Times, Sunday Times
  • From a distance they gave the appearance of a low gray picket fence on top of which a long swath of green brocade had been spread. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • Is the picket fence the wrong size? Times, Sunday Times
  • He says: 'Most people think their food still comes from a little farm with a red barn and white picket fence. The Sun
  • Even if they do — the way, for instance, picket, as in "picket fence," and piqué, "a stiff fabric with a raised pattern," do — that hardly implies that nowadays they're synonyms. Word Court
  • Being also a first year student, he had come in with his ju'jut'su and between them they had won the battle, but not until the Jap had been hung over a picket fence with a jagged wound in his shoulder. Triple Spies
  • Most of the places we looked at were 19th-century timber-framed houses with picket fences. Times, Sunday Times

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