Sentence examples for parasol on from inspiring English sources

He told us that one of his predecessors had sent Queen Victoria a parasol on the occasion of her diamond jubilee, trimmed with Chantilly lace.

I coveted a silver lamé crinkly pleated skirt that juts out stiffly like a paper parasol on a piña colada (comes in gold, too; $645).

We also ordered ceviche, which was served in half a coconut with a tiny paper parasol on top (shades of Trader Vic's).

While it "feels very abrupt," Touring Plans also said in one Twitter post that it liked the "really great new sparkly hat and parasol" on Teddi Barra, who performs on a swing.

Beaten into submission with a parasol on Samui's Lamai beach the previous evening, Horton had been raped twice before being left to drown in the sea near to the resort where she had been staying.

I first read his best-known novel, The Go-Between, at the age of 16 in 1979 (in a Penguin copy with Julie Christie under a parasol on the front, a still from Joseph Losey's 1970 film adaptation), because Hartley was the most contemporary writer on our Sixth Year Studies English course.

A week at Il Fienile cottage (sleeps 4-6) costs from €650, B&B (low season only) from €95, casasangabriel.com Lac de Clarens has forest and cabins on one shore and dazzling white sand dotted with parasols on the other.

Few of the couples putting up their parasols on the beach seemed to notice.

Women in flowing saris and kids in starched white school uniforms glided by on bicycles, while teenage girls walked along the street holding parasols on sunny days.

I suppose even grown-ups like to carry protective parasols on the subway, though ours aren't as pretty or as much fun to twirl.

They in turn are flanked by Nathalie Carrington and Melanie Bond as other lively workmates, all four bursting into song, or lolling languorously with their parasols on the beach on a Saturday afternoon, glowing with health – and radium.