How to Use parapet in a Sentence

parapet

noun
  • The invaders fired arrows over the castle's parapet.
  • Will this move prompt some to raise their heads above the parapet?
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 May 2025
  • Charles laid flowers on the parapet.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • She was treated as a pariah for putting her head above the parapet.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • There would be waist-high parapet walls on either side of the walkway.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 11 June 2017
  • There was certainly a whole thing about not putting your head above the parapet.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Milling, paving, parapet and bridge deck repairs start on April 1.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Ivan Molchanets peeked over a parapet of sand bags at the front line of the war in Ukraine.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Police on the parapets fired rubber bullets to drive the crowd back.
    — Time Staff, Time, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The fire caused damage to the parapet wall along the northbound portion.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2024
  • One by one, those films brave enough to risk a wide release peeked their heads above the parapet and were swiftly mowed down.
    — Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Just as the person leaned down as if to jump from the parapet, a man's arms reached for her and brought her to safety.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
  • That goes from the stone parapet walls on its roof gables to its massive elaborate chimneys.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2017
  • The top of that wall now formed a kind of parapet whose surface was covered with thousands of jagged pieces of glass.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Under the code, signs are not permitted to extend above a parapet.
    — cleveland, 1 July 2021
  • An early draft of the poem notes how the parapets of the trenches at Cuinchy were built up with corpses.
    — David Yezzi, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
  • New Land is proposing a 69-foot, six-inch building with a two-foot parapet.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2020
  • In another Frame, a low wall like a parapet seems to restrain the sea beyond it.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But most CEOs are keeping their heads beneath the parapet.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The upper floors lead to the parapet-walkway and are accessible by stairs.
    — Lauren Ro, Curbed, 12 June 2018
  • Sketches filed with the city replace the arches over the entryways with stucco parapet walls.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The 15-foot-tall spoon stood against the side of the building with the handle nestled in an opening of a roof parapet.
    — Terry Tang, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Roan performs on a set that looks like a massive Gothic castle with a drawbridge, parapets and a throne.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Leading from the driveway to the front entrance is a showpiece — a long, curving brick walk and stairs with low brick piers and low parapet walls.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Then, just as abruptly, the parapet has crumbled, cluttering the water with floating pieces of brash.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Feb. 2024
  • None of the 2019 demonstrators put his or her head above the parapet by making speeches.
    — Jane Perlez, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Let the rich mould around Wagners parapets be upturned, and there will be found an Eloquent answer.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022
  • British soldiers were surprised to see Christmas trees lit with candles on the parapets of the enemy’s trenches.
    — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2017

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