Sentence examples for high parapet from inspiring English sources

Taylor & Levi omitted the usual high parapet, which would have blocked the Goulds' view.

On a high parapet in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, there is a grand monument to a nineteenth-century American statesman.

"The existing terrace was nice enough," Ms. Joseph said, "but it had a high parapet, which obscured much of the view.

Bathers can look up and see the words "You Are Beautiful" on a high parapet — rumor has it that the painting was done by Banksy, the British street-art star.

One side of the spacious terrace has a high parapet wall that makes up part of the building's facade, and according to Mr. Franco, most potential buyers have said they like the privacy that the wall provides.

King Stefan falls to his death from one of the castle's high parapets, but, God knows, he had it coming.

The causeway is 9 m wide and bordered by 20 cm high parapets.

Ensconced behind a chest-high parapet of stage monitors, he looked diminutive but sounded tart and bracing as usual.

In fact, visitors are not allowed to lean against or sit upon the 36-inch-high parapet wall, and guards are posted at each level of the spiraling 1,416-foot 1,416-footsuramphatodecorum prevainsurer. Foley said.

The bridge is designed without standard handrails and uses waist-high parapets as guard rails instead.

To climb the stone spiral staircase hidden inside the walls of Notre Dame in Paris and emerge onto a gothic parapet high above the river Seine is to enter Viollet-le-Duc's wondrous world.