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How to use parapet in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Parapet means a low protective wall. Example: “Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets.”

Examples of parapet by meaning

nounA low protective wall.

  • Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets.2020 August 26, “Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail”, in Rail, page 11

nounPart of a perimeter that extends above the roof.

  • Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

More sentences with parapet

  • These churches had such defensive features as thick walls, loopholes, machiolate parapets and towers.1990, Basil Rotoff, Monuments to Faith: Ukrainian Churches in Manitoba, page 29. From the entry machiolate
  • They are fitted to the track to contain derailed wheels on the approach to tunnel portals or bridge parapets.2022 March 23, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Driver of ScotRail HST had only seconds to react, says RAIB”, in RAIL, number 953, page 11. From the entry guard rail
  • Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry mailboat
  • Perhaps it is you whose machine-gun taps every night like a devil-ridden typewriter against this particular area of our parapet?1917, Tom Kettle, “‘Zur Erinnerung’: A Letter to an Austrian Fellow-Student”, in The Ways of War, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page…. From the entry devil-ridden
  • Blindage covering the tops of saps could simply consist of sandbags, or a layer of fascines laid over the crest of the parapet.2013, Ron Field, American Civil War Fortifications. From the entry blindage
  • The first stage of the demolition work consisted of removing, by oxy-acetylene cutting, the whole of the plate floor, cross-girders, and lattice parapets.1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 53. From the entry cutting
  • It should be noted that the parapets, also monolithing with the decking slab, contribute an important share to the effective resistance of the work.1927, Ferro-concrete: The Monthly Review of Reinforced Concrete, volume 19, London: London & Norwich Press, →OCLC, page 58. From the entry monolith
  • I was very compelled by the experience of watching Hamlet and the opening scene that has the ghost of his father on the parapet saying, “Revenge my death.”2021, Lew Hunter, Naked Screenwriting. From the entry compelled
  • Ancient cities, on the other hand, were fortresses based upon technologies of obstruction designed to freeze and arrest such dromospheric assaults with battlements, turrets, archers, moats, parapets, bastions, etc.2012, John David Ebert, The Age of Catastrophe: Disaster and Humanity in Modern Times, →ISBN. From the entry dromospheric
  • Half-columns of enriched Doric and a stuccoed and channelled blind arcade frame the shopfront, with plain brick upper floors embellished by quoined strips and a deep bracketed parapet.2005, Christine Casey, Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. From the entry quoined
  • These copingstones are often not bonded to the parapet, as the bonding material may have deteriorated over the years and has not been reinforced or replaced.2002, Anthony Avillo, Fireground Strategies: Fire Engineering, page 106. From the entry copingstone
  • We were walking on grass now, and I saw that the tent-cathedral had been pitched on a champian surrounded by semifortified houses; its insubstantial belfries looked down upon their parapets.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry semifortified
  • At a timed signal the shelling ceased and the ghostly line of gas-masked Germans sprang forward, firing, lunging and tearing at the parapets on the outer edge of the cemetery.1915 July 13, “Germans Win Bitter Fight Near Souchez”, in The Commercial Appeal, volume XCIV, number 13, Memphis, Tenn., page 3. From the entry gas-masked

Meaning of parapet

  1. noun A low protective wall.
  2. noun Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.
  3. noun A fortification consisting of a wall.

Full definition of parapet

Questions about parapet in a sentence

How do you use parapet in a sentence?
Parapet is used as a noun. For example: “Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets.”
What is a short sentence with parapet?
“Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet.”
What does parapet mean?
Parapet means a low protective wall.

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