1A wooden fence made of spaced uprights connected by two or more horizontal rails.
（用尖板条连接而成的）尖桩篱栅
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Add a picket fence to enclose the property and an elegant pergola at the top of the slope.
Think of the times you've been out for a walk and have stopped to admire a neighbor's garden from the outside of an attractive picket fence.
When he got off duty a few hours ago he decided to take a nap just outside the building hidden behind an old picket fence.
She held open the picket fence for Jack and she took his arm.
Already, the front porch has given way to the screened deck in the back yard, and the white picket fence is now a brick wall.
Her realtor had almost given up on her when Amy found the place of dreams, a house with a white picket fence and a little garden that needed a bit of tending.
We built a white picket fence around the front of the house to keep area cattle from rubbing against our porch supports.
His footsteps slowed as he neared the gate in the little picket fence.
He made it as far as the gate of the white picket fence surrounding his house.
Windows open to an effusive flower garden, which is divided into quadrants by brick paths and enclosed with a white picket fence.
The remains of his fortune were used to purchase a picket fence that extended in random directions across his property.
A perfectly tended flower garden lined the base of the house and a neat row of dark green hedges concealed the white picket fence running along the outside of the yard.
A bright picket fence stands out and makes a garden corner feel more enclosed than a brown fence.
Because it's wood, the picket fence can be finished with paint or stain, to add a more formal appearance to its surroundings.
Smith began by removing the picket fence and digging up the yard.
A white picket fence surrounded the neatly cultivated front yard, and one could hear the music drifting in from the garden out back.
The couple stood for a few moments, neither of them moving in the small space between the tool shed and the white picket fence that surrounded the yard.
Built three years ago, the property is situated in a cul-de-sac and is bordered to the front by a green picket fence and black wrought-iron gates.
He quoted her a price to replace the old chain linked fence with a brick fence and then build a smaller picket fence around the grassed area in front of the house.
All homes have alarms and there will be a decorative trellis screening to the patio areas and a timber picket fence to the side boundaries.
1.1North American A picket fence as a symbol of middle-class domesticity and contentment.
we'd get a house with a white picket fence, and a dog, and have two kids
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There's a lot of weight to be carried at times, and the fact that its breezier moments never pacify but rather embolden its picket-fence jeremiads testifies to what a remarkable play the album is from start to finish.
Over the past dozen years, I've had several boyfriends who were nice enough but didn't figure into my long-term, picket-fence dreams.
Now I'm picturing him in a nightmare of white picket-fence suburbia, a respectable man in a respectable neighborhood just like the one I grew up in, masking unspeakable perversions behind those wire-rimmed glasses and the sober suit.
But luckily I never gave in to an unexamined idealization of picket-fence happiness.
To prove that he is not being obstinate, the author gives his disembodied gray-day poetry a backdrop of white picket-fence perfection.
Definition of picket fence in US English:
picket fence
nounˈpikit fens
A wooden fence made of spaced uprights connected by two or more horizontal rails.
（用尖板条连接而成的）尖桩篱栅
Example sentencesExamples
We built a white picket fence around the front of the house to keep area cattle from rubbing against our porch supports.
Smith began by removing the picket fence and digging up the yard.
A white picket fence surrounded the neatly cultivated front yard, and one could hear the music drifting in from the garden out back.
Built three years ago, the property is situated in a cul-de-sac and is bordered to the front by a green picket fence and black wrought-iron gates.
All homes have alarms and there will be a decorative trellis screening to the patio areas and a timber picket fence to the side boundaries.
A bright picket fence stands out and makes a garden corner feel more enclosed than a brown fence.
Because it's wood, the picket fence can be finished with paint or stain, to add a more formal appearance to its surroundings.
The couple stood for a few moments, neither of them moving in the small space between the tool shed and the white picket fence that surrounded the yard.
Add a picket fence to enclose the property and an elegant pergola at the top of the slope.
He made it as far as the gate of the white picket fence surrounding his house.
She held open the picket fence for Jack and she took his arm.
Her realtor had almost given up on her when Amy found the place of dreams, a house with a white picket fence and a little garden that needed a bit of tending.
He quoted her a price to replace the old chain linked fence with a brick fence and then build a smaller picket fence around the grassed area in front of the house.
A perfectly tended flower garden lined the base of the house and a neat row of dark green hedges concealed the white picket fence running along the outside of the yard.
The remains of his fortune were used to purchase a picket fence that extended in random directions across his property.
Windows open to an effusive flower garden, which is divided into quadrants by brick paths and enclosed with a white picket fence.
When he got off duty a few hours ago he decided to take a nap just outside the building hidden behind an old picket fence.
Think of the times you've been out for a walk and have stopped to admire a neighbor's garden from the outside of an attractive picket fence.
Already, the front porch has given way to the screened deck in the back yard, and the white picket fence is now a brick wall.
His footsteps slowed as he neared the gate in the little picket fence.