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How to use railing in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word railing? Here are some examples.

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Tina smiled at a scraggy boy who was leaning against the railing as she walked past him.
Walker gripped the railing of the quarterdeck as another frigid wave swept over his ship.
I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature.
Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated.
Someone had broken a hole in a meshed railing and people came through it and across the railway track to the Quay.
The tree provides structural support for the ramp and platform through the use of a cable, arch, and railing suspension system.
She didn't look up until he had ascended the porch steps and rapped his knuckles on the railing.
The Democratic Presidential nominee, who has been railing against outsourcing, is walking on a sticky wicket on the issue.
The wild-eyed soldier rushed out like an animal released from captivity, and leaned along the railing, starting to laugh with uncontrollable joy.
The railing wasn't meant to hold that much weight, so it collapsed backwards.
Holding onto the railing tightly, and feeling my heart flutter alarmingly at the unwavering look in his eyes, I stared back.
Leaning forward, she wrapped her gloved fingers around the cold railing as she wondered why she had refused Valmont's offer of a dance.
A sudden yank, and she flew out of the water like a bird, being dragged up, and pulled over the railing.
A retractable awning provides instant shade when the sun moves beyond a leafy almond tree, and a broad railing serves as auxiliary seating.
I hopped the railing and stood on the path, and she had knelt down to adjust the toddler's helmet about 80m ahead of me.
I would've enjoyed this more if I hadn't just read Stephen King railing against adverbs and lazy writing.
He merely grinned, still leaning over the railing so she could easily see the laughter sparkling in his leaf-green eyes.
The rotund man left the railing to rush down a set of stairs leading to the main deck until he stood toe to toe with the much smaller Bard.
I skidded to a stop on Frankie's perch, leaning against the pristine white railing to get my breath back.
Farther away from the glass railing, a quieter, more loungey atmosphere takes over.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The iron pulpit at Avila, the eagle lectern at Cuenca and the staircase railing at Burgos are all remarkable works in metal.
There was no railing to this abutment, not even a coping along its borders.
To show you how despicably I think of the business, I will here leave you presently, though I lose the pleasure of railing at you.
Here and there a rifleman stood, his chassepot resting on the iron railing, his face turned towards the woods.
Nor less emphatic is his railing at the plaid and blaspheming at the claymore.
A rope with a bolt attached had been flung across and had caught in a fenestration of a projecting fragment of railing.
Alix and Peter watched the others at the railing until the ferryboat turned.
A hooded crow perched on the railing of the balcony and, apparently resenting his remarks, cawed defiantly at him.
He was a species of Thersites, and no dread of punishment could control his railing.
The centre was occupied by grass and trees, inclosed within an iron railing.
He looked over the railing of the fosse to find the old silence undisturbed.
Instead of being hard and stiff, it is all linked together, so that it is more like a piece of chain mail than of iron railing.
He seated them by the railing, along which trailed a honeysuckle vine.
Pliny also records that it throve best when sown with cursing and railing.
The bondsman and Pete went forward and stepped inside a railing.
The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
Crossing a little dusty street and climbing a low iron railing, he went to sit upon the grass in the station yard.
Upon the top of the bank was a low brick wall, surmounted by an iron railing.
Men began to throng into the office and call at him over the railing, jovially, sharply, viciously, excitedly.
On a seat against the railing was a young woman dressed suitable for red automobiles, with hair the colour of an unsmoked meerschaum.
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