parapet
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Potential applications include concrete pavements, highway parapet walls, and sewer pipelines.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
His opposite number at McLaren, Zak Brown, is the only other big player to put his head above the parapet on this issue.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
He trotted about on the parapet, always sucking his paw, leaping from stone to stone, fighting off imaginary foes with his tiny dagger.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
He learned not just about poses, pastrami and parapets, but about me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
The other keeps, long deserted, were lonely, haunted places, where cold winds whistled through black windows and the spirits of the dead manned the parapets.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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