handrail

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Recent Examples of handrail The city determined that because the stairway historically has had one handrail, the team will not need to add a second one as part of the repair and can leave the existing handrail in place. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 Keep driveways and sidewalks free of ice and snow, and repair any step or handrail issues. Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 No rules, no handrails, no police, no governing body. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025 Fortunately, the listing survives online and shows a great room on the upper level with terraces that connect to the main level via a gently curving staircase with a dark wood handrail that seems more 1910 than 2010. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handrail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handrail
Noun
  • The daughter lost her balance and fell backwards off the railing into the ocean.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Take them outdoors, hang them over a railing, and whack them with a broom handle or similar tool.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Seven levels of the gallery rise around a central staircase of frosted glass and ornate brass balustrades that seem to float upward, and a glass modern elevator that blends modern with classical chic.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The helicopter, its body on the stairwell bannister, was wedged between the trees and the lampposts bracketing the entrance to the stairs.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
  • At that moment, the two men ran for safety — Holguin jumping into his SUV in the driveway and Silva leaping onto a banister along the front porch.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Inter-agent trust — the tendency for an AI agent to trust other AI agents by default — can also be exploited to get around the guardrails built into popular systems.
    Big Think, Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The light turns angular and the ranges run like guardrails toward Mexico.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Many of them took to the roads and rails, freaking out elite and middle-class white Protestants, who generally viewed married, settled life as the foundation of a successful society.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The General Assembly has given Mecklenburg County permission to put a referendum on the ballot to raise the county’s sales tax to fund road, rail and bus projects.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Handrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handrail. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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