Parasol

//ˈpɛɹəˌsɑl//

"Parasol" in a Sentence (12 examples)

A parasol is used during the summertime to shade the face.

The white parasol is hers.

She was holding a small parasol in her hand.

That white parasol is hers.

I'm very sorry, but I seem to have lost your parasol.

I am thinking about buying a new parasol.

The grandmother used a parasol to protect herself from the scorching summer sun.

I'm thinking about buying a new parasol.

As usual, she was extraordinarily festooned and bedizened, with a limp Leghorn hat anchored to her head by many windings of faded gauze, and a little black velvet parasol on a carved ivory handle absurdly balanced over her much larger hatbrim.

"Dear!" said Clarissa, and Lucy shared as she meant her to her disappointment (but not the pang); felt the concord between them; took the hint; thought how the gentry love; gilded her own future with calm; and, taking Mrs. Dalloway's parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon which a Goddess, having acquitted herself honourably in the field of battle, sheds, and placed it in the umbrella stand.

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Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]

[…] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.

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