Sample Sentences forparry (editor-reviewed)
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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 fencer managed to parry every thrust his opponent attempted.parry = deflect or block
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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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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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On those evenings when he did arrive, his arms laden with groceries, he was short and sullen, parrying my questions about Mahtob with a terse "She is all right."† (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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A Hunter came out of nowhere and slashed at me with her knife, but I parried and kept running. (source)parried = deflected (pushed it to the side)
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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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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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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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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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