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  • Deer are not my livestock but, I know some have game clubs and have large 10 'chainlink fence with razor wire to keep animals out and in.

    How many of you own private land and what do you do if you see a dog running around and you know that dog is chasing deer away f 2009

  • Of course, he couldn't get into his house and he couldn't call a locksmith — who likely wouldn't open the door to someone's house to a unicorn anyway — so he took a running gallop and leapt over the chainlink fence into the backyard.

    Oh, Myth... Mary Alston Capps 2011

  • Fleeing teargas but still trapped, people pulled down chainlink fences and scurried out through underground parking garages in order to make an escape back to the streets.

    Occupy protests in Oakland and New York: a weekend of police clashes 2012

  • Minutes later, Martinez pulled on to a slip road leading to a gate in the chainlink perimeter fence.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • They put up large concrete barricades and started erecting the chainlink fence.

    Vancouver and the Olympics « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • To his left is a dilapidated building with a chainlink fence around it, which holds the contractor's sign displaying a sketch and description of what it will become in eighteen months.

    A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011

  • Mary Ellen Mark's pictorial catalog of the handmade tributes to the dead and missing that sprang up along chainlink fences and in front of firehouses after 9/11 have outlasted almost all the memorials themselves.

    Cameras Defining the Chaos and Its Aftermath Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • The carport was blocked by a chainlink fence covered in rags.

    A Cuba Homecoming 2010

  • After parking the Toyota on the far side of the hole, next to a makeshift chainlink construction fence, he loosened his tie, took off his tomato-soup–colored sport jacket, and draped it across the back of the front passenger seat, then set out to explore the periphery of the blast, dime-store pocket notebook and tooth-marked pencil stub in hand.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • After parking the Toyota on the far side of the hole, next to a makeshift chainlink construction fence, he loosened his tie, took off his tomato-soup–colored sport jacket, and draped it across the back of the front passenger seat, then set out to explore the periphery of the blast, dime-store pocket notebook and tooth-marked pencil stub in hand.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

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