baluster

Example Sentences

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They are designed for a baluster style of railing with pickets and can’t be used with all railing types.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2021

One stair baluster is still broken; its loose base has scratched the floor, and its paint is chipped and old.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

The white baluster rail is matched by a handrail and supported by half a matching newel post; wherever the cornice breaks, it turns against itself.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague

In their place a solitary figure sat on a baluster drinking smoke contemplatively from a pipe of clay.

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

“This hall the same colour,” said I, “with the rails of the baluster in the cream white of the trim.”

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard