How to Use handrail in a Sentence

handrail

noun
  • The lantern gallery's guard rail is black with a red handrail.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Turn to face the right handrail and step with your left foot out.
    — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Are there handrails at every set of steps or stairs?
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The handrail looks like the flat piece and the newel post like a thick scroll.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The stairs were wide enough but uneven, and a handrail stretched on part of the way.
    — Lauren Depino, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • One thing the skaters don’t love about China are the handrails.
    — Wayne Ma, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
  • There is also no handrail on the basement steps.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Are halls well-lit with handrails and easy to navigate?
    — Helen Dennis, Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Are there solid handrails on at least one side of the stairways?
    — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Kehaar flew up, circled the pool and perched on the handrail.
    — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • This isn’t a tourist cave tour with handrails and electric lighting.
    — Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Like the railing around a deck, or the handrail alongside some stairs.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • And don’t even think about slipping, because the handrails are just as filthy as the floor.
    — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
  • One of the doors started to open up and some dude was trapped between the door and the handrail.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
  • My husband is against installing a handrail because of the cost.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Blood was also found in the basement and on the stairway handrails.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of the ramp, handrails are available to help users get out of and back into the chair.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • Yes, there are a lot of people who will look at those drawings and then just do their own handrail.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Stairs in the aisles were given a non-slip coating and handrails were installed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The effect is reinforced with glass balustrades and no handrails.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
  • Shrager suggests one with wide steps and treads and perhaps even a safety bar handrail.
    — Jane E. Brody, charlotteobserver, 27 June 2018
  • There are also no handrails at the site, so be careful walking up and down the steps.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Slipped while descending a flight of stairs but managed to grab the handrail just in time?
    — Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • Large, broken pieces of the handrail were also shown scattered to the side of the porch.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Plus, your core is forced to put in some work to keep you balanced, since these machines don’t have handrails.
    — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 3 June 2025
  • The stairs, made of wood, would be about 5 feet wide and feature steel threads instead of handrails.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The front steps were still crumbling, and still nobody had bothered to build a handrail for the stairs.
    — Miriam Toews, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In the bathroom, handrails and an entry level shower in the bath can help as well.
    — Rachel Hartman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Ginsburg usually grips a handrail to go down the few steps from the bench in the courtroom.
    — Jessica Gresko, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The restroom is on the dining-room level, spacious and equipped with a handrail.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 July 2018

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