How to Use baluster in a Sentence
baluster
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Fence boards or balusters must not be spaced more than 4 inches apart.
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Joseph Truini,
Popular Mechanics,
2023-04-29
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Newels are the big posts, and balusters are the little posts between the big posts.
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Benjamin Nugent,
The Atlantic,
2024-04-17
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Over the door a limestone balcony has a stone railing with balusters and finials.
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Judy Rose,
Detroit Free Press,
2020-05-09
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The barge was intact, but some of the balusters and caryatid statues will have to be restored.
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Linda Robertson,
miamiherald,
2017-09-14
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The attractive, wrought iron balusters on the staircase add a crisp, modern look.
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Joan Walden,
courant.com,
2017-07-20
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The winding, formal stairs are outlined by twisted wood balusters.
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Janet Eastman,
OregonLive.com,
2018-02-03
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A wooden staircase with metal balusters leads from the entry hall to a skylit second-floor landing.
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Marcelle Sussman Fischler,
New York Times,
2017-07-05
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In staircase lingo, a baluster refers to the vertical poles onto which the handrail is affixed.
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Alyssa Longobucco,
House Beautiful,
2022-07-28
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This baluster railing allows the spotlight to remain on the lush garden just beyond.
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Rachel Silva,
ELLE Decor,
2023-05-24
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Stone balusters set a stately base for a scroll candelabra and a footed bowl full of grapes, gourds, and greenery that emulates an old-world still life.
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Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2024-10-04
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The vintage staircase and chimney were replaced with floating oak steps and slatted oak balusters that create a natural wood art piece in the living room.
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Kelly Dawson,
Sunset Magazine,
2020-02-12
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Another sliced street view of repetitive balusters and the top half of a stop sign interrupts the visual monotony, hinting at the hidden horizon line.
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Pelican Bomb,
NOLA.com,
2018-01-24
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For example, the trim on the front porch railing is purple but the balusters are yellow, a touch that, depending on your view of that color pairing, kind of works.
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George Dohrmann,
SI.com,
2018-01-17
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Dave Holloway: There was no evidence on the stairs of someone going down, uh, like broken baluster or anything like that.
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Tracy Smith,
CBS News,
2024-05-18
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While stripping the paint off a staircase on another job, the Brownstone Boys were inspired by the staircase’s balusters.
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Megan Johnson,
Architectural Digest,
2024-12-02
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To ensure outdated stairs don't take away from the rest of the home's design, consider replacing the existing balusters.
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John Sewall,
Houston Chronicle,
2018-03-24
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Couples can toast to their future amid the fragrant citrus trees, pines, and rustling palms, all of which are framed by mottled stone balusters—a Gatsby-esque stage for speeches.
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Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2023-03-20
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Researchers also found the baluster beds in Germany, which are remarkably like the sixth to seventh-century Coptic beds.
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Stan Shunpike,
Discover Magazine,
2022-07-16
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Its handrails, designed by local artists David and Eli Hess, are made of 129 balusters and newel posts, some new and some reclaimed from other buildings, but each different.
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Chris Kaltenbach,
baltimoresun.com,
2019-11-17
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There are doors and windows, architectural columns and decorative finials, balusters and spindles, as well as bins of hinges, drawer pulls and other hardware from whatever time period one desires.
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Richard A. Marini,
San Antonio Express-News,
2018-05-04
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Modern bicycling standards require narrower openings between balusters.
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Lisa M. Krieger,
The Mercury News,
2024-01-04
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Handrails were formed of naturalistic curved roots and branches, and balusters are peeled poles, as described by historians who successfully nominated the church to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Jeastman,
oregonlive,
2023-06-23
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