chain-link

[ cheyn-lingk ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling a chain-link fence, as in its diamond shapes or linked couplings:

   a chain-link fabric.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chain-link¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

I arrived at the Cielo Vista Walmart three weeks later to find flowers and pictures and memorials adorning a quarter-mile chain-link fence erected around the store’s perimeter and a city still in shock.

From Salon

The Dodgers led 8-5 in the sixth inning of Game 6 when, with two outs and two on, Al Gionfriddo, a 5-foot-6, 165-pound reserve outfielder, raced into the left-field corner to make a twisting, lunging catch of DiMaggio’s potential game-tying drive on the tip of his glove above the short chain-link fence in front of the bullpen, 415 feet from home plate.

From Los Angeles Times

Or the days when the Trump administration separated 5,000 migrant children from their parents, with little plan to help them find each other again, and kept the children in chain-link cages.

From Slate

She also called a photographer friend who took the now famous picture of her sitting on a white cube in a dress with a chain-link pattern.

From Los Angeles Times

Besides the plywood on the windows, someone had managed to get a large trampoline over the chain-link fence in the backyard and left it there.

From Los Angeles Times