Below you will find example sentences with "razor wire". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Razor Wire in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: wire
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "razor wire" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as also said razor wire deployed under, asked if razor wire works to, border, texas and abbott stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with wire fraud, barbed wire, encore wire, barbed wire and encore wire, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with razor wire
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He has vowed to install more razor wire. (8 words)
Razor wire is a variation of barbed wire, commonly used on top of industrial fencing. (15 words)
Asked if razor wire works to deter border crossings, Kirby retorted, “Does razor wire work for what? (17 words)
If Representative Comer’s investigative team went to the city of Nogales to investigate Biden’s “radical open borders policy,” they could walk right up to a 20-foot-high border wall draped from top to bottom with rows of coiling razor wire. (43 words)
Later I stood mesmerized before a rendition of the U.S. flag made on the border wall made of clothes, T-shirts, children’s clothes, undergarments, the same clothes that tear on the razor wire, or are sometimes found discarded in the desert. (43 words)
Razor wire—long-barb type on top of a chain link privacy-fence surrounding a utility power sub-station Barbed tape or razor wire is a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent passage by humans. (41 words)
Asked if razor wire works to deter border crossings, Kirby retorted, “Does razor wire work for what? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
It specifically prohibits the use of plywood, razor wire, barbwire, chicken wire, livestock wire, electrically charged wire or other materials intended for purposes other than the construction of fences and walls.
Asked if razor wire works to deter border crossings, Kirby retorted, “Does razor wire work for what?
Razor wire—long-barb type on top of a chain link privacy-fence surrounding a utility power sub-station Barbed tape or razor wire is a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent passage by humans.
He also said razor wire deployed under Abbott’s directive had injured asylum seekers, including a 19-year-old woman who suffered a miscarriage after becoming entangled in the wire.
Razor wire is a variation of barbed wire, commonly used on top of industrial fencing.
The process of combining the core wire with the steel tape was invented by the current owner of Razor Wire International, Renne Cano.
A 5.5 meter fence, topped with razor wire, has stood at the border with for a year now.
Haley detailed her plan to address the crisis during a press conference in her final stop of the day with the backdrop of razor wire and shipping containers blocking the Rio Grande River crossing.
If Representative Comer’s investigative team went to the city of Nogales to investigate Biden’s “radical open borders policy,” they could walk right up to a 20-foot-high border wall draped from top to bottom with rows of coiling razor wire.
In a recent social media post, the Republican governor revealed that he's now ordered razor wire installed on the Lone Star State's boundary with New Mexico.
Migrants wait in the Rio Grande for an opening in the razor wire barrier, to cross into the United States, in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sept. 25, 2023.
Razor wire is strung along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.
To the tune of 50,000 USD, a new roof and windows have been put in place, doors have been replaced, solar panels installed, a razor wire fence erected, and the building has been painted.
Abbott has refused entry to the Border Patrol and other federal officials at Eagle Pass and, in defiance of the recent Supreme Court decision, has continued to string razor wire at critical points along the border.
At the physical border are 29 miles of coiled razor wire on the United States side of the river, put in place by the Texas National Guard on orders from Gov. Greg Abbott.
He has vowed to install more razor wire.
However, Texas installed more razor wire at the border and Governor Abbott invoked Article 1, section 10, clause 3 of the US Constitution, asserting Texas’ right to self-defense when it is being invaded.
Later I stood mesmerized before a rendition of the U.S. flag made on the border wall made of clothes, T-shirts, children’s clothes, undergarments, the same clothes that tear on the razor wire, or are sometimes found discarded in the desert.
Many of those crossings were in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) is currently defying a Supreme Court order to cut razor wire along the Southern border.
Shipping containers and barrels intermingle with Texas National Guard’s “no man’s land” of razor wire along the riverbank.