How to Use razor wire in a Sentence

razor wire

noun
Definition of razor wirenext
  • The back fence was topped with razor wire, and there were coils of it in some of the branches of the tree.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • It is surrounded by a chain-link fence with razor wire topping.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The only light comes from streetlights shimmering above the razor wire.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • They are packed in 11 cell blocks surrounded by turrets, guard towers and walls topped with razor wire.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The five-year-old, $240 million facility is still a jail, but no razor wire is in sight.
    — Keri Blakinger, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Where there once was an imaginary line, there are now steel beams, reinforced with razor wire and as many as three layers of barriers.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The city, long familiar with checkpoints and razor wire, has been under heavier security ahead of the event.
    — Rahim Faiez, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • As the virus sweeps through Ohio’s prisons, its effect reaches far beyond the razor wire of each facility.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 17 May 2020
  • The original outdoor visiting space consisted of brick and razor wire.
    — Popular Science, 2 June 2020
  • With its razor wire perimeter and muted exterior, the property resembled a small prison.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The gates are marked by bright floodlights, watchful cameras and, at the Rachel gate, a squat tan bunker building with blackout windows — all surrounded by razor wire.
    — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Prison is an old motel with a wall Critics also noted that the state’s solution involves reopening part of a prison that is an old renovated motel with a wall and razor wire around it.
    — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Flores and the other children alleged they were housed in brutal conditions, in razor wired-fenced facilities with adult men and women, while being subjected to abuse and routine strip searches.
    — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Mississippi spent more than $35 million to modernize Parchman, replacing the work camps with more than two dozen buildings surrounded by razor wire.
    — Jerry Mitchell, ProPublica, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Florida State Prison is a monolithic, 1960s-era penitentiary hemmed in on all sides by level farmland and coils of razor wire.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The dog's hind legs were almost caught by the razor wire.
    — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Apart from the buoys, which are anchored to the riverbed, Texas has placed about 60 miles of razor wire along its bank of the Rio Grande.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Only, the curls of razor wire signaled this was no place of fairy tales.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • In the school building, a classroom overlooked the A Block yard, which was ringed in razor wire.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Some Afghans who were turned away from the airport tried to kill themselves with the razor wire used to keep the crowds at bay.
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the sections are topped by razor wire, and the ocean off the park is treacherous for swimmers.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The razor wire really did its job, but some of our folks didn’t do their job.
    — NBC News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • While the innermost fence around the Capitol has not been removed, the razor wire on top of it has.
    — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • But days went by, and the razor wire and fencing installed after the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol remains.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Bands of silver razor wire line the stalks of Carrizo cane.
    — Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Scores of migrants on Wednesday again pushed toward the razor wire that marks the frontier but did not break through.
    — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The two sides have clashed over razor wire and buoys that Texas officials have assembled near or in the middle of the Rio Grande.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But set apart across the water is a building surrounded by high walls and coils of razor wire.
    — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The razor wire installed by Texas in the Rio Grande has recently caused the deaths of a mother and two children trying to cross the border illegally.
    — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The dual efforts, which include a dispute between Texas and the federal government over the use of razor wire, have escalated into a broader standoff between state and federal officials.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024

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