[
UK
/ɡˈɑːdɹeɪl/
]
[ US /ˈɡɑɹˌdɹeɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɑɹˌdɹeɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety
How To Use guardrail In A Sentence
- My car nosed under the guardrail and broke in half.
- Because the discursive babbler is setting himself some dogmatically rigid guardrails.
- Along the guardrail, a hundred ballistaes lay ready to load and fire, each set on a pivot and swivel.
- Because it's almost as wide as the Taconic State Parkway, I thought I ran an even greater risk than usual of caroming off the roadway's guardrails and rock faces and spending the rest of my life in hock as I tried to repay Range Rover for the repairs. Driving Like the Other Half
- Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.
- He could renew the ship's guardrails without recourse to a dockyard.
- Mandy fires the grappling hook onto a guardrail and bungees down into space, the cable holding her as she lowers herself to the fifth floor.
- One night while driving in dangerous weather, their car careens off the highway and crashes into a guardrail.
- The ceiling panels, curved soffits, and decorative guardrails all sport themes from Native American culture.
- The decks and hulls are joined at an outward turning flange with a substantial guardrail fit directly beneath the flange to prevent damage to the sheer.