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Example sentences for "parry"

Lexicographically close words:
parritch; parroquet; parroquets; parrot; parrots; parrying; pars; parse; parsecs; parsed
  1. Buchan and Parry were commissioned at the same the to attempt the North Sea route.

  2. Therefore, Parry applied to it the name of lieutenant--afterwards Sir James--Ross.

  3. Upon this field, in 1827, Parry adventured with his men to reach the North Pole, if that should be possible.

  4. Parry went out next year, as a lieutenant, in command of his first and most successful expedition.

  5. In the northern part of Fox Channel, on the western shore, is Melville Peninsula, where Parry wintered on his second voyage.

  6. This group of islands Parry called North Georgian, but they are usually called by his own name, Parry Islands.

  7. Parry has since recommended, to reach the North Pole along this route.

  8. How the genius of Parry equalled the occasion; how there was established a theatre and a North Georgian Gazette, to cheer the tediousness of a night which continued for two thousand hours.

  9. Then he would forget his condition, and seek to show me how some parry was effected.

  10. Again and again I felt his steel slipping under my guard, and it was only by a violent parry that I escaped.

  11. The intervening space between the discoveries of Parry and Ross were traversed, and a curious point of science established; yet it can not be supposed that the passage can ever be of the smallest utility to navigation.

  12. PARRY executed for a design to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

  13. The latitude made by Parry was 82-3/4 degrees.

  14. Yet twice in his stamping rushes I found my opening; once the Ferara's point passed his blade, and but for the ringed guard of the German long-sword that stopped it when his parry failed, the steel would have passed through him.

  15. But when I had fairly felt his wrist I knew that his heavier weapon would shortly prove his undoing; knew that the quick parry and lightning-like thrust would presently lag a little, and then I should have him.

  16. Of course I came between to parry the murderous thrust, and after that it was life for one of us and death for the other.

  17. I saw him gain his horse and mount; saw the flash of, his sword and the skilful parry that in a single parade warded death on either hand; saw him drive home the spurs and vanish among the trees, with his horse-holding trooper at his heels.

  18. What with his reining back for space to whirl the steel I had the time to parry the descending blow.

  19. XC Rather to parry then to smite intent, He know not what to wish; that low should lie Rinaldo, would Rogero ill content, Nor willingly the Child by him would die.

  20. Both blindly strike; more blindly yet those lords Parry the stroke, who scarce discern their swords.

  21. LXXXV No more in arms can trust the cavalier As heretofore; for proved those arms have been: He with more care, more caution than whilere, Prepares to parry with the faulchion keen.

  22. Yet more behoves to parry than to wound, If either knight his footing would maintain; For the first fault in fence, by either made, Will with eternal mischief be appaid.

  23. Nail thou up these creeping shrubs before the entrance of the place, and abide thou there as already directed, till our return, to parry the curiosity of any who may be attracted by the sight of the private passage.

  24. Twas such give and take, snip and snap, parry and thrust, as that I could scarce forbear laughing.

  25. Black, however, has one move to parry the check, and that is by playing Q to Q 5, or interposing the Q as it is termed.

  26. Stopping" comes in where this parry is impracticable.

  27. Descartes does parry some of the thrusts of Hobbes; others he simply cannot meet.

  28. Bram Forest had no time to parry words with words.

  29. A name suggested to Captain Parry for certain little vertical streams of vapour rising from the sea or open water in the Arctic regions, resembling the barber in North America (which see).

  30. A name given by Parry to ice, the surface of which is composed of numberless irregular vertical crystals, nearly close together, from five to ten inches long, about half an inch broad, and pointed at both ends.

  31. The return thrust came so swiftly that the Prussian by luck or by instinct had not time to resort to a circular parry and mechanically employed the parade de quarte and was now on the defensive.

  32. He struck out at Aglionby, who only half warded the blow, staggering backward and endeavouring to parry this lively attack.

  33. For weeks he had expected the stroke, and now it had fallen suddenly, and at a time when he was not at hand to parry it.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    answer; bicker; block; boggle; cavil; check; confound; confute; contradict; controvert; counter; crush; defeat; defend; deflect; demolish; deny; dismiss; dodge; duck; evade; fence; fend; finish; floor; foil; forestall; hedge; hinder; mystify; obscure; obstruct; overthrow; overturn; overwhelm; palter; parry; prevaricate; quibble; rebuff; rebut; recoil; refute; repel; repulse; settle; shift; shirk; shrink; shuffle; shy; sidestep; silence; squash; squelch; stop; subvert; swerve; turn; undermine; upset; waffle; ward; weasel