handrail
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You’re either stuck to a vinyl-clad seat or grabbing up for a handrail and trying to direct your face away from the armpits to your left and right.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Known as 'the handrail of the Mournes' as it helps guide hikers, it is made of natural granite stone using only traditional dry stone walling techniques.
From BBC ● May 4, 2025
“He stands outside, in the dark London night, sobbing and unsteady, the handrail only a few feet away. And below that is the cold hard pavement,” Henry writes in her book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
The collection’s key motif was a curved red handrail designed for Milan’s 60-year-old red line by the late architect Franco Albini.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
I couldn’t help noticing the staring young man riding at the rear of the tractor, hanging on to a handrail.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
Such changes will vary in cost and might mean adding a stairlift, better lighting, handrails, nonslip surfaces, a safer bathroom or even relocating a bedroom to the main floor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The cliffs he walked can now be traversed by stairs with convenient handrails built by the National Park Service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Others, visibly distraught, squeezed onto crowded buses -- gripping handrails and bags -- or loaded onto lorries waiting to be spirited away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
No rules, no handrails, no police, no governing body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
Great Britain delivered locomotives and ship models, including an exquisite thirty-foot replica of Britain’s latest warship, Victoria, so detailed that even the links of chain in its handrails were to scale.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
