banister
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The velvety silhouette feels as distant as the sea, whose dark surface is sliced by the banister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
She can now ride her bike again and walk up stairs "without hanging on to the banister".
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
There were icicle lights outside their rural Georgia home, garland on the banister and stockings hanging above the fireplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Pennoyer ordered garlands on Amazon to hang over doors and windows and run up the banister.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
“Kitchen-Girl, you finish the silver, polish the banister, scrub the—” Izzi rolls her eye and throws down the cloth.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Along the banisters were motion-activated lights - one wrong step and they would flare on, announcing their presence.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Marion says her rule of thumb for banisters or stairs is to measure the length, then add 50 percent; so, if your banister is 12 feet long, add six and order 18 feet of garland.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Exterior walkways with wooden banisters rise and fall like the lines on a graph across the facade of a building crowned with a wavelike roofline.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
Going from banisters and concrete artists to building 96-square-feet homes “has been a very huge 180,” Dubroca said in May.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2020
As he started down the stairs he saw a white man carrying a large paper sack and he drew close to the banisters so that they could pass each other.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
