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How to use parasol in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Parasol means a small light umbrella used as protection from the sun. Example: “A parasol protects from the sun.”

More sentences with parasol

  • A parasol protects from the sun.From the entry from
  • A desire to protect the whiteness of the skin when no parasol is at hand has given rise to the “facekini.”2018, Sophia Camille Erickson, The China Option: A Guide for Millennials: How to Work, Play, and Find Success in China, unnumbered page. From the entry facekini
  • Another possible physiological role for a hyperpolarization-activated inward current could be in the postburst hyperpolarization that is characteristic of parasol cells.2016 January 15, “Electrophysiological Evidence for Intrinsic Pacemaker Currents in Crayfish Parasol Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry postburst
  • Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn't packed a parasol, but she was untroubled; she'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry alamodality
  • The damsel of today carries neither parasol nor bonnet skewer, but that, hasn't cut down the occupational hazards of mashing.1948 June 15, The Southwest Times, Pulaski, Va., page 14, column 1. From the entry bonnet skewer
  • Many toadstools are dainty enough to deserve their popular names: "Pixies' parasols," "Fairies' bath," "Elf cups," and so on.1936 March 21, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 43, column 5. From the entry elf-cup
  • Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry slap
  • Six utterly chalk-white people were cramped together beneath the parasol, sharing the little circle of shadow it was casting down onto the moderately sundrenched beach.2015, Arne Dahl, Europa Blues, →ISBN. From the entry chalk-white
  • She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket.2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, page 163. From the entry unfear
  • The light catches the filigreed tendrils and graceful motion of the jellies, their orange bodies umbrella-ing along like fairy parasols come to life.1997, National Geographic Traveler, page 36. From the entry umbrella
  • The best kind of a “bunnie” for an Easter gift is at the end of a parasol and serves as the handle.1901 April 3, “Booker T. Washington and His Wife Honored […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry bunnie

Meaning of parasol

  1. noun A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
  2. noun A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
  3. noun A sun umbrella for garden use etc., mounted on a stand; these can be foldable and demountable.

Full definition of parasol

Questions about parasol in a sentence

How do you use parasol in a sentence?
Parasol is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A parasol protects from the sun.”
What is a short sentence with parasol?
“A parasol protects from the sun.”
What does parasol mean?
Parasol means a small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parasol (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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