How to Use railing in a Sentence

railing

noun

• He leaned on the deck's railing and watched the sun set.
• Make sure there are no trip hazards or loose rugs or railings around.
  — Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 29 July 2024
• There’s a bed on a floor on a 10-foot drop with no railing.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
• From along a railing above, one fan issued his verdict on what had just transpired.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• Zach ran out of the apartment, jumped over the second-story railing and landed on his head.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• There was the deck out back without a railing or stairs, missing kitchen cabinets.
  — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
• Romi looked down over the railing and tried to find the spot where the Sarit woman had hit the ground.
  — Etgar Keret, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
• These get tied with ribbon to the railing around the museum’s Survivor Tree.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
• Video of the protest showed one woman hop over a railing behind a security guard blocking a ramp up to the building’s door.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The closing will allow for installing a safety platform while crews replace the timber deck and railing.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2021
• Making her way down the stairs, Weinstein gripped the railing and tried to ignore the discomfort in her legs.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2021
• For railings and doorways, connect both garlands to accommodate longer lengths.
  — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
• Between takes, Cotillard sang her lines to herself, while Driver stretched his legs on the railing of the boat, like a dancer at a barre.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The home also boasts a wooden staircase with black detailing on the railings, while another room has black and white tiling sheathing the walls.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
• Yu lunged at Bickett and fell over a railing, before Bickett subdued him and tried to wrestle the baton away.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2021
• Demi asks Brendan on the date, and Natasha walks along the railing of the lighthouse, looking out over the waves until Brendan returns.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• Despite its many amenities, the space was a bit of an architectural hodgepodge—medieval-ish stair railings; a mishmash of molding styles, and somehow dark, even with the large windows and high ceilings.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024
• Some teammates, including right fielder Kole Calhoun, could be seen trying to beckon Bumgarner over the railing.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• The railing to the right holds stairs that lead down to the ground floor.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Jan. 2024
• And, of course, the hop over the railing and onto the field.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2021
• The receiver climbed up the wall and stood on the railing in front of the seats.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2022
• The man got out of the vehicle and had his legs over the side of the railing.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• But as the trooper reached him, the teenager let go of the railing.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
• Joey Bart smashed a two-run homer off the railing above the yellow line in left in the eighth.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
• The two girls at times hung over the railing, jumped and shouted as the floats and bands passed them by along 14th street.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• Richard Calderone grabbed onto the teen who was sitting on the railing of the Founders Bridge, ready to jump.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• For the second look of the carousel, Bieber wears a light green two-piece while sitting on the railing of a dock.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Jan. 2023
• One of the officers then climbed back over the railing toward the door, Ramos said.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 23 June 2023
• Judge watched the ball clank off the front of the stands, just below two fans who reached over a railing and tried for a catch.
  — Ian Harrison, Chron, 28 Sep. 2022
• Each railing was shaped and contoured to cleanly meet the pole.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 23 June 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024