- present participle of parry.
parrying
Example Sentences
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He was parrying tough questions on a big stage for the first time, facing an audience who knew him only as the Angry L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Unlike commercial antibiotics, phages evolve alongside their bacterial hosts, dodging and parrying the bacterial response so that for every pathogen, there’s likely a bacteriophage, somewhere, that eats it.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
Monaco goalkeeper Alexander Nubel helped salvage a point by turning Baptiste Santamaria’s long-range strike around the post in the 27th and parrying a close-range header from Terrier in the 28th.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2022
Norway committed bodies forward in the latter stages and registered their first shot on target in the final minute of normal time, Manuela Zinsberger parrying Ildhusoy's shot onto the crossbar.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2022
He’s trying to taunt, trick me with his relaxed, almost sloppy parrying.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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