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

He steadied himself by grasping the baluster, and the doctor left him, and sent out Ducie.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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

Stiffly upstanding on each chief baluster, Absently gaze the historical griffins, Plunged in their silent and deep meditation.

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.