How to Use balustrade in a Sentence

balustrade

noun
  • Our shirts, shorts, and shoes are on the concrete balustrade with our bags.
    — Tega Oghenechovwen, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The effect is reinforced with glass balustrades and no handrails.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
  • He’s just gotten to the top of a ladder and is about to hop over the balustrade to join his amour.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
  • From there, the pair pushed the flyers over the balustrade, sending them floating down to the floor.
    — Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • To the aft, an open balcony with a glass balustrade overlooks the ginormous main deck.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The whole thing was crowned with a rooftop balustrade highlighted by a row of classical urns.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The oak desk in the library offers a view from above of the living room, and at the same time acts as a balustrade.
    — Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The balustrade was built in Highland Park in the 1920s.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to a new balustrade, work could be done to help the bulkhead underneath.
    — Steve Patterson, Florida Times-Union, 27 Feb. 2026
  • French doors on two sides of this room offer access to the upper terraces wrapped in classic balustrades.
    — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
  • On the terrace outside his kitchen, a riot of flowers and plants leaned against the bamboo balustrade.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Three-story balconies with glass balustrades are flanked by the yacht’s large windows, framed by three ‘X’s.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The dining room’s mantel has mini, dollhouse-size loggias with two-inch-high balustrades.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 June 2023
  • The staircase swings against textured walls, its balustrades carved to resemble flowers.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 June 2023
  • People perch in trees, scale public art, lounge on grass slopes, balance on steel barricades, lean on stone balustrades.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Many lined the balustrades of the three higher floors overlooking where others gathered in the wide space below.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Overlooking three sides of the room is an open gallery reached by an oak spiral staircase and bounded by an oak-and-steel balustrade.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The stately yellow firehouse has balustrades, a cupola and black shutters on the windows.
    — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The glass balustrades have been replaced with safety barriers that already have rusted.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
  • Acanthus leaves fluttered up the balustrade in tight pinwheels, curling around seed pods glistening with ripe fruit.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Head upstairs via the marble staircase with a bronze balustrade (or the elevator).
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
  • To spruce things up, consider painting the columns, ceiling, and balustrades a fun color.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 5 May 2023
  • The crossing is a single-span concrete deck bridge with rectangular balustrades.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Glass balustrades, open treads, and brass strips that reflect light are set against a backdrop of reclaimed eucalyptus wood tiles.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
  • And the staircase, with its intricate carvings of flowers, gargoyles, and swans all across the balustrade, took my breath away.
    — Jalyn Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The construction was initially aimed at adding a new bridge deck and rails and improving the structure's balustrades and walls.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 13 July 2023
  • Alba followed her through the slit sheet of plastic draped over the front door to keep the dust in, and on the landing leaned over the balustrade to watch her descent.
    — Cormac James, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Alba followed her through the slit sheet of plastic draped over the front door to keep the dust in, and on the landing leaned over the balustrade to watch her descent.
    — Cormac James, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Burroughs's house in Lawrence, with its white balustrade, is the geopsychic core of my American earthquake.
    — J. D. Daniels, Esquire, 4 May 2017
  • Beyond the peekaboo walls, balustrades throughout are made of soccer netting, in homage to the space’s previous use.
    — Asad Syrkett, Curbed, 18 June 2018

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