handrail

noun

Definition of handrailnext
as in railing

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Recent Examples of handrail Safeguards like bathroom handrails or locks on toilet lids can help reduce the risk of these incidents in homes. — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 21 May 2026 Students began work last fall on rebuilding the stairs and handrails. — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026 The Accessible Queen rooms feature roll-in showers, hand showers, handrails in the bathrooms, and accessible routes to get into the rooms from the hotel lobby. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026 The Arizona Department of Occupational Safety and Health fined the business $6,250, noting that a steep staircase did not have a proper handrail, among other issues. — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 4 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for handrail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handrail
  1. railing
  2. balustrade
  3. banister
  4. guardrail
  5. rail
Noun
  • Ornate Scrolls Made popular in the early 2000s, even homes with simpler staircases often had ornate scroll details on their bannisters and railings.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 30 July 2026
  • That’s why, a day before the smoke plumes descended, Saxon was using zip ties to fasten an air quality sensor to the railing of a house in McKinley Park, the latest of 15 or so installations she’s done over the past few years.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
Definition of railing
Noun
  • Imbibe inside or in the adjoining garden-courtyard where passing gondolas send canal water lapping below the balustrade.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There’s similar vintage oomph in this fifth-floor unit, which has chevron parquet floors, iron balustrades, and a slightly formal dining area backed by a wall of mirrors.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of balustrade
Noun
  • Ornate Scrolls Made popular in the early 2000s, even homes with simpler staircases often had ornate scroll details on their bannisters and railings.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 30 July 2026
  • Earlier this week, TMZ published a video that appeared to show massive white staircase banisters being craned into the building.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Definition of banister
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  • Hugging Face said it was forced to use an open-weight model developed in China to diagnose and defend from the hack because of the closed models’ internal guardrails.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The Moon, linked to feelings, moves through your 5th House of Creativity and conjoins sore spot Chiron there, nudging you to express yourself while keeping guardrails.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of guardrail
Noun
  • The bathrooms are large and bright with wide vanities stocked with Diptyque toiletry products in pump bottles and towels hanging on heated rails.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The railway manias left behind functioning rail networks, and the dot-com bubble left behind server and network infrastructure that made the following two decades of internet companies cheap to build.
    — Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
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