parapet

Example Sentences

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But women's football and sport wouldn't be where it is if no-one put their head above the parapet and ripped up the rule book.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

In the most superficial way, the addition is a contextual match for the main house—it is white, and it is a similar height, with a cornice and a matching parapet.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025

Its boxlike modernistic style is defined by recessed spandrels, unadorned vertical piers, gently set back parapet pillars, and a vocabulary of French Art Deco and Celtic ornament at both base and crown.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

"And looking down over the parapet, we saw this mob of young women."

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

He leaned over the low stone parapet and peered down at miniature cars and buses and swarms of tiny people scurrying along the streets.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown