Sentence example with the word 'parry'

parry

about the bush, bicker, counter, equivocate, hinder, nonplus, pull back, reduce to silence, shut up, stave off, ward off

Definition n. (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword

Last update: June 11, 2015


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Robbo moved from the right to the left covering for Parry whilst Richard Langley was called up from the sub 's bench.   [verb]

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He spun round - just managed to parry a vicious upward thrust aimed at his heart.   [verb]

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If you think we can parry it by repeating this experiment--suppose when the moon next changes,--I will hazard the necessary advance, come by it how I may.   [verb]

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This last undaunted parry altogether foiled Mr.   [verb]

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PARRY AND MR.   [verb]

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Sure enough; they came to the place, and there was the wreck of the cart just as Parry left it.   [verb]

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Captain Kellett's associate, Captain McClintock of the "Intrepid," had commanded the only party which had been here since Parry.   [verb]

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He held his sword arm out stiffly to parry the blow.   [verb]

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Here is the most westerly point the reader will find on most maps far north in America,--the Melville Island of Captain Parry.   [verb]

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Northwards and eastwards it extends through the Parry Islands and Grinnell Land to north Greenland, reaching on the west coast as far south as Melville Bay; and it also occurs at Sabine Island on the east coast.   [Please select]

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Corporal Parry saw him mount his horse behind the barricade, six hundred yards away.   [Please select]

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