picket fence

noun

plural picket fences

: a fence made of pickets

a white picket fence

Old roses scrambling up a porch or spilling over a picket fence may be reminiscent of a bygone era.—

Michael MacCaskey

Tall pine trees lined both sides of the road, backdropped by an occasional stone wall or picket fence …—

Peter Gordon

—often used to evoke an idealized or stereotypical image or conception of happy suburban homes in the U.S.

First we are lulled with a vision of homespun Americana: flowers, a picket fence, a fireman waving from his fire truck, a man watering his front lawn.—

David Ansen

"Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle," says [Lindsay] Vonn …—

Elizabeth Leonard

… grandparents who were hoping their grandchildren would be raised behind a white picket fence and full-measure suburbanites …—

Janet Elder

We have worked our way up the real estate food chain to the point where we have a modest version of the complete suburban package: the picket fence, the stone walls, the in-ground pool …—

Charles McGrath

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The tunnel is still here under the tracks, but now there’s a brick path leading to it and a white picket fence along the way. —

Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024 Set in an idyllic small town, the film begins with an iconic opening sequence of blue skies, white picket fences, red roses and neighborhood cheer before burrowing deep into the earth to the unnerving buzzing of bugs underneath. —

Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024 That didn’t mean that Tagovailoa immediately erected a picket fence on the field. —

Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 An unhinged salon door, bare ladder, wooden bed frame and picket fence are some of the remnants nailed together for a ramshackle background. —

Bryan West, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for picket fence