baluster

Example Sentences

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They are designed for a baluster style of railing with pickets and can’t be used with all railing types.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2021

One stair baluster is still broken; its loose base has scratched the floor, and its paint is chipped and old.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

Mamma Stewardson, being up stairs, called in a low voice over the baluster, "Yes, dears, and take a large one."

From Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

At the end of the stairs there was a banana-tree, whose wide leaves fell down over the velvet of the baluster.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

I felt my way down by the baluster, which required my right hand, and threw my revolver to my left.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts