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 public fancy fastened upon that figure of a smiling woman, "awful pretty, but with something scaring about her," leaning over the baluster to laugh, "I won't hurt him!"

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

I felt my way down by the baluster, which required my right hand, and threw my revolver to my left.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Mamma Stewardson, being up stairs, called in a low voice over the baluster, "Yes, dears, and take a large one."

From Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various