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
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
And now Gilligan, another proud Rangers man and another Rangers investor, has put his head above the parapet.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
As she put her hand out to touch the parapet of the bridge, a duck startled her with a high, unpleasant call, almost human in its breathy downward note.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
As well as the surfaces, the existing edge parapets and central reservation barriers are in poor condition and not compliant with current standards.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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
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
Lorraine Ali, however, climbs the parapets to declare, “I’d like to use this entire space to sing the praises of Matt Smith, who plays the amoral Prince Daemon” in “House of the Dragon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
People, mostly men, leaned over the stone parapets of the raised park that surrounded the library, or walked up and down and bent to drink water from the public drinking-fountains.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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