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
Now, she says she is ready to "stick her head above the parapet".
From BBC ● May 13, 2025
It was safe to move now; the woodlanders had gone from the parapet.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
Lorraine Ali, however, climbs the parapets to declare, “I’d like to use this entire space to sing the praises of Matt Smith, who plays the amoral Prince Daemon” in “House of the Dragon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
The security protocol signed Tuesday, however, specified that there will be a gap between the spectators and the upper parapets, wide enough for security and rescue services to pass.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2023
She was about to say as much when she saw the battlements ahead, long parapets built into the very stone of the mountains on either side of them.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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