FENDER in a Sentence

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For FENDER, below is one of 17 sentences:
In a room without a window, there burnt a fire guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain.

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 Meanings and Examples of FENDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fender
 n.  a barrier that surrounds something to protect it
Classic Sentence:
1  It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on one man's coat.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Then he gave instructions that the open car wasn't to be taken out under any circumstances--and this was strange because the front right fender needed repair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  Miss Mowcher sat down on the fender again, and took out her handkerchief, and wiped her eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
4  She had got over the fender now, and I had got over my suspicion.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
5  He was tender of the very slippers she had been warming, as he put them on, and stretched his feet enjoyingly upon the fender.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
6  "Here, thank you," said the lawyer, and he drew near and leaned on the tall fender.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
7  She sat with her stockinged feet on the bright steel fender.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  She took her feet off the fender, pushed back her chair, and bade Fagin draw up his, without saying more about it: for it was a cold night, and no mistake.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Oliver retained his stool by the fire; Barney wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor: close outside the fender.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  On her first evening in Gopher Prairie Cy had appeared at the head of a "charivari," banging immensely upon a discarded automobile fender.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  He filled the grease-cups, varnished a fender, removed from beneath the back seat the debris of gloves, copper washers, crumpled maps, dust, and greasy rags.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  In a room without a window, there burnt a fire guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
14  He returned with an entirely new group, and this time there were three automobile fenders and a carnival rattle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  While she waited for Kennicott in the car, before a farmhouse, the seat burned her fingers and her head ached with the glare on fenders and hood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  When my father learned that I had smashed a fender on the car, he blew his top.
2  The impact dented our car's fender.