parapet

Example Sentences

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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

Its boxlike modernistic style is defined by recessed spandrels, unadorned vertical piers, gently set back parapet pillars, and a vocabulary of French Art Deco and Celtic ornament at both base and crown.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

"And looking down over the parapet, we saw this mob of young women."

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

The parapet reached almost to my shoulders, so I dragged a folding chair from the stack against the wall, opened it, and climbed onto the precarious seat.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath