How to Use parapet in a Sentence

parapet

noun

• The invaders fired arrows over the castle's parapet.
• Ivan Molchanets peeked over a parapet of sand bags at the front line of the war in Ukraine.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
• The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022
• An early draft of the poem notes how the parapets of the trenches at Cuinchy were built up with corpses.
  — David Yezzi, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
• The 15-foot-tall spoon stood against the side of the building with the handle nestled in an opening of a roof parapet.
  — Terry Tang, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• She was treated as a pariah for putting her head above the parapet.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• There would be waist-high parapet walls on either side of the walkway.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 11 June 2017
• Police on the parapets fired rubber bullets to drive the crowd back.
  — Time Staff, Time, 6 Oct. 2019
• One by one, those films brave enough to risk a wide release peeked their heads above the parapet and were swiftly mowed down.
  — Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
• New Land is proposing a 69-foot, six-inch building with a two-foot parapet.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2020
• Mock 500-pound bombs hang in the bomb bay, and visitors can walk along the narrow parapet that runs from the cockpit, and nose turret, to the rest of the plane.
  — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 15 May 2017
• In another Frame, a low wall like a parapet seems to restrain the sea beyond it.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• Built in 1929 for actress Bertha Richter, the house evokes a European fortress with its turret and parapets.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Smaller but well-suited to the outdoors are two of Dalya Luttwak’s painted metal vines, which crawl on the parapet above the plaza.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Leading from the driveway to the front entrance is a showpiece — a long, curving brick walk and stairs with low brick piers and low parapet walls.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
• The upper floors lead to the parapet-walkway and are accessible by stairs.
  — Lauren Ro, Curbed, 12 June 2018
• That goes from the stone parapet walls on its roof gables to its massive elaborate chimneys.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2017
• Under the code, signs are not permitted to extend above a parapet.
  — cleveland, 1 July 2021
• The family also had built the 1898 Drechsler Building on Lake Street — with the name and date emblazoned on the parapet.
  — Felicia Dechter, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• The structure includes a colonnade, parapet wall, and fanlight windows taking after the look and feel of the White House.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Jan. 2021
• Behind them, floating above trucks and fruit stalls and huge vats of frying falafel, the golden cupola of the Dome of the Rock peeks over the fortress-like parapet of the Damascus Gate.
  — Noga Tarnopolsky, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• The variances were given to increase the amount of parking from 41 spaces to 58, and to allow a sign that extends above the building’s parapet wall.
  — cleveland, 1 July 2021
• At this time two German heads appeared above the parapet, and Private Jay was shot and instantly killed.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 25 May 2018
• The mudslide blew out the parapet wall on westbound I-70, ripped the road away on the eastbound interstate and crashed into the Colorado River.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• Sketches filed with the city replace the arches over the entryways with stucco parapet walls.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Let the rich mould around Wagners parapets be upturned, and there will be found an Eloquent answer.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
• At first there wasn’t much to see — just a hunched, gray form perched on the parapet, Batman-style, or a crossbow silhouette spiraling high above.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• The building needs brickwork along the roof parapet wall, gutter work, the 18 new windows, tree removal and emergency board-up.
  — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2020
• British soldiers were surprised to see Christmas trees lit with candles on the parapets of the enemy’s trenches.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017
• Willis Tower tops out at 1,451 feet at its parapet — for all practical purposes, the roof.
  — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024