parryin a sentence
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The fencer quickly parried her opponent’s strike and countered with her own.parried = blocked or deflected an attack
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She parried the reporter’s question with a joke and changed the subject.parried = avoided answering
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The knight parried each sword swing with practiced ease.parried = blocked or deflected
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She parried his attempts to provoke her.parried = avoided
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Others circled to listen to the thrust and parry of their exchange.†
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Only Phineas never was afraid, only Phineas never hated anyone. Other people experienced this fearful shock somewhere, this sighting of the enemy, and so began an obsessive labor of defense, began to parry the menace they saw facing them by developing a particular frame of mind, … (source)parry = avoid
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I calmly parried every thrust. (source)parried = avoided
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In the thrust and parry of battle, Redd's crown had fallen on the floor. (source)parry = use one's blade to turn aside the blade of an opponent
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Swift as a serpent, Max stabbed downward and caught the blade within his parrying guard.† (source)
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Luke showed me thrusts and parries and shield blocks the hard way. (source)parries = ways of deflecting the thrust of a sword
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He awoke thinking of food and fell onto his couch at night still hungry, his head whirling with problems unsolved and dangers unparried.† (source)unparried = not avoidedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unparried means not and reverses the meaning of parried. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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And there was an old gentleman who shall be nameless ... who, in the battle of White Plains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a musket-ball with a small sword, insomuch that he absolutely felt it whiz round the blade, and glance off at the hilt; in proof of which he was ready at any time to show the sword, with the hilt a little bent. (source)parried = avoided (being hit by)
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There is a go-for-broke tactic, "the target," taught by the best swordmasters, which consists in headlong advance with arm, wrist, and blade in full extension--all attack and no attempt to parry. (source)parry = use one's blade to turn aside the blade of an opponent
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Although he did his best to appear confident and cheerful, he could feel that they were on edge, and after parrying one or two questions about the plan, he began to wonder how he could distract their thoughts and get them to relax until they were ready to set off again.† (source)
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After a few more thrusts and parries, another man appeared around the corner of the pyramid and ran toward the fighters.† (source)
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I dodged, I parried, I lied when I had to.† (source)parried = avoided
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