parapet
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The post included a photo of the actor’s recently released memoir, “You With the Sad Eyes,” and a coffee mug resting on what appears to be a home parapet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
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
They also need leaders willing to put their head above the parapet.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025
The Deeping Wall was twenty feet high, and so thick that four men could walk abreast along the top, sheltered by a parapet over which only a tall man could look.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
It includes work on the parapets, joints and surfacing.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
I’m mesmerized by a relatively new entrant into this genre: The sight of rooftop pools sloshing over their parapets, raining water onto the streets below.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
A street musician played to lunchtime crowds, and during the holidays, lights festooned the parapets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Whatever the reasons, the local chapter of the Danish Brotherhood constructed a big, sturdy, multiuse building with handsome parapets outside and handsomer parquet flooring inside.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Behind Horatio, the stark parapets of Elsinore were barely visible.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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