How to Use parry in a Sentence

parry

verb
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  • He parried and then threw a punch.
  • He parried the thrust of his opponent's sword.
  • She cleverly parried the reporters' questions.
  • The challenge for the U.S. is finding ways to parry such moves.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • First up: parry the pawns to knock their little heads off.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 June 2022
  • In the 15th minute Miyazawa curled the ball in from depth on the left and Engen extended her leg to parry the ball.
    — Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Yoplait tried to parry with its own new brand, Yoplait Greek, at the beginning of 2010.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 22 May 2017
  • The win also helped the Stars parry a pair of boogeymen: overtimes and the Hurricanes.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Attinella did well to parry the ball behind him to keep it from crossing the line.
    — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Or, more often, found their effort parried by the legs or the body of a defender in their path.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
  • Programs parry the loss of depth but searching for their own transfer.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Esparza parried with his left hand, knocking his radio to the ground.
    — Priscella Vega, Daily Pilot, 31 July 2019
  • Killion had a good strike, sending the ball low and toward the left post, but Franch got down quickly and with a strong left hand, parried the ball wide.
    — Molly Blue, OregonLive.com, 3 June 2017
  • The king has parried calls for democratic reforms over his three-decade reign.
    — Sewell Chan, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Biden took on the most fire, but parried it and, as front-runner, benefits the most from a no-decision.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Kansas City keeper Tim Melia parried that away with both hands, but the ball dropped at the feet of Joveljic, who redirected it on goal.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2024
  • In a perfect fight, the strikes are dramatic and swing close to their partner’s body, with attacks parried away by a sword.
    — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 July 2017
  • Then in the 54th minute a Fernandes drive through a group of players was parried by the unsighted Michel Vorm and Ayew was their to prod home the rebound.
    — SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Clark had to deny Paulo’s power again in the 61st minute, lunging to parry away a similar blast.
    — Caitlin Murray, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Toranaga is engaged in a constant thrust and parry with the council.
    — Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
  • You’ve clearly been trained to parry difficult questions with a both-sides dodge.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Biden is an experienced debater and knew how and when to parry the attacks that kept coming at him.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • The solution here isn’t to try to parry every court action but to constrain the court’s ability to launch these blows.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
  • In the beginning of the sequence, the Mandalorian uses a long stick-like weapon as a staff to parry the attacker’s blows.
    — Wired, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But his right-footed attempt was parried wide by Panama's Jose Calderon.
    — Billy Heyen, cleveland.com, 15 July 2017
  • Harrison Afful started the play with a cross from the right wing that Andre Blake could only parry away.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • In the 87th minute, Rodman ripped a cross deep into the box, and Thorns defender Emily Menges parried it away with her foot but appeared to kick it off her own hand in the process.
    — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
  • That was as close as Belgium came to taking the game to extra-time, though, as Lloris parried a long-range piledriver from Axel Witsel.
    — Kieran Canning, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • Vancouver goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka parried the ball back in front of the goal, only for Agada to blast it home for his eighth goal of the season.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2024
  • Belgium’s all-time leading goal scorer Romelu Lukaku was the next to have a shot on target, with Maignan comfortably parrying it away.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 1 July 2024

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