How to Use handrail in a Sentence

handrail

noun

• The handrail looks like the flat piece and the newel post like a thick scroll.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• The lantern gallery's guard rail is black with a red handrail.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
• Turn to face the right handrail and step with your left foot out.
  — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2017
• One thing the skaters don’t love about China are the handrails.
  — Wayne Ma, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• The stairs were wide enough but uneven, and a handrail stretched on part of the way.
  — Lauren Depino, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• One of the doors started to open up and some dude was trapped between the door and the handrail.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
• Kehaar flew up, circled the pool and perched on the handrail.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• At the end of the ramp, handrails are available to help users get out of and back into the chair.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
• Like the railing around a deck, or the handrail alongside some stairs.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Large, broken pieces of the handrail were also shown scattered to the side of the porch.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• At the end of the track, a handrail allows users to disembark the chair and swim in the water.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
• And don’t even think about slipping, because the handrails are just as filthy as the floor.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
• It's made with poured-in-place concrete and a handrail of rebar.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2018
• Are there solid handrails on at least one side of the stairways?
  — Michele Parente, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The front steps were still crumbling, and still nobody had bothered to build a handrail for the stairs.
  — Miriam Toews, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• Ginsburg usually grips a handrail to go down the few steps from the bench in the courtroom.
  — Jessica Gresko, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• There are also no handrails at the site, so be careful walking up and down the steps.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
• Once in the water, a handrail allows users to disembark the chair and swim in the water.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2023
• Stairs in the aisles were given a non-slip coating and handrails were installed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• And the back handrail was full of different-colored paints.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 9 Oct. 2020
• My husband is against installing a handrail because of the cost.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• The restroom is on the dining-room level, spacious and equipped with a handrail.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• In the bathroom, handrails and an entry level shower in the bath can help as well.
  — Rachel Hartman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• But, lifting the handrail opens this treadmill desk up to a respectable 7.5-mph top speed.
  — Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• Another notable piece of artwork that’s out for all to see is the custom handrail in the front of the house.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 30 May 2024
• Yes, there are a lot of people who will look at those drawings and then just do their own handrail.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 19 Feb. 2021
• Liu’s trails were like a poem carved onto a handrail in a stairway of the Louvre.
  — Robert Moor, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2016
• The effect is reinforced with glass balustrades and no handrails.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• There is a small gym, along with a pool (with curlicue handrails and an invigorating counter-current) that guests can book by the hour for complete privacy.
  — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2024
• The astronauts held a handrail system that was significantly shorter than previous NASA spacewalks.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024