Sample Sentences for
parry
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    She parried his attempts to provoke her.
    parried = avoided
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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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    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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    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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    I felt my heels and coat-laps peculiar subjects of assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the household in re-establishing peace.†  (source)
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    "I like what you've done with it," she parries.†  (source)
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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)
    standard 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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    Had she the remotest doubt of the correctness of her deductions, she would have had them confirmed now, for Sir Andrew, completely taken by surprise, had grown very pale, and was quite incapable of making the slightest attempt at clever parrying.†  (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)
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