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
  • 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
  • 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 at the far end affords one of the great panoramas of the Eternal City, with the dome of St. Peter’s etched on the horizon.
    — David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The effect is reinforced with glass balustrades and no handrails.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
  • The best view in the house is from the creaky wooden balcony outlined by a white wrought iron balustrade that wraps around the L'Amour room upstairs.
    — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The Prince dressed up the facade with pilasters and a balustrade and instantly transformed it, but he was stumped by the grounds.
    — Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The whole thing was crowned with a rooftop balustrade highlighted by a row of classical urns.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 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
  • The tall windows, pillared facade, rooftop balustrade, and 90-foot-high rotunda of the main building give it the look of a chateau.
    — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2019
  • One shows a landscape blocked by a balustrade, another shows an iPad, and the third, on the iPad, shows the landscape as though the barrier weren’t there.
    — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • As in the 1610 version, Susanna is seated on a balustrade, but this time there is a tenebrous sky, rather than a clear blue one.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Wooden stairs with carved detailing on the balustrade lead up three stories high.
    — Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Burroughs's house in Lawrence, with its white balustrade, is the geopsychic core of my American earthquake.
    — J. D. Daniels, Esquire, 4 May 2017
  • 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 formal dining room opens to a covered terrace lined with limestone balustrades.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Lee has further been inspired by the cast iron railings and street architecture of the British capital to shape the rails, balustrades, and handrails in-store.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The semicircles of pillars face a pool with a fountain, and 24 bronze bas-reliefs on the entrance balustrades illustrate scenes from the war years, at home and abroad.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • To spruce things up, consider painting the columns, ceiling, and balustrades a fun color.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 5 May 2023
  • The staircase swings against textured walls, its balustrades carved to resemble flowers.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 June 2023
  • The dining room’s mantel has mini, dollhouse-size loggias with two-inch-high balustrades.
    — 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

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