Sentence examples for a parapet from inspiring English sources
Otherwise, they reasoned, the defenders would be able to use every wall as a parapet.
Khan and Vollick leaned on a parapet and chatted, as one commander to another.
Kids apparently can't resist a parapet, no matter the drop beyond it.
Four actors on a parapet jig up and down like silly people.
His subject La Belle Ferronnière (perhaps another of Sforza's mistresses) looks over a parapet, her gaze mysterious.
But there is another way (he says, sidling behind a parapet and donning a tin helmet): artificial pitches.
Once, a black nanny took me out across the road to a parapet above a rail track beside that harbor.
The impact knocked a chunk of a parapet off the roof of the taller building and scattered bricks.
In the Giustiniani Portrait, an anonymous sitter is depicted behind a parapet on which he rests his right hand.
His eye can be unerring - look at the hinge-capped Löwenbräu bottles lined up like soldiers above a parapet.
Already living behind high walls, these super-wealthy could soon have more reason than ever to retreat behind a parapet.
