[ UK /ɡˈɑːdɹe‍ɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɑɹˌdɹeɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety
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How To Use guardrail In A Sentence

  • Traffic was reportedly separated by only a temporary guardrail. The Sun
  • Or maybe the speedometer is busted and you are only traveling 25 mph and a cushy guardrail is close by. A Confession
  • Hugging the spectacular Ligurian coast, the route tilted uphill immediately with a 15. 8-kilometer (9. 8-mile) climb followed by a nerve-racking descent full of hairpin curves with cliffs heading down to the sea lurking just over the guardrails. Menchov wins Stage 12 time trial to take Giro lead
  • He waited between the roadside trees and caught his breath, then crossed the guardrail cables and stood on the macadam. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
  • There were hairpin turns, but the road's edge was marked by white lines and protected by guardrails, and double yellow lines separated the upbound and downbound lanes. The Cat Who Moved A Mountain
  • If you are like me and are not acrophobic, you probably prefer relatively transparent bridge guardrails that enable views, as opposed to mostly solid, visually opaque guardrails that obstruct views. Roger Lewis's pet peeves about the District and its architecture
  • Twenty-one children were killed, most of them suffocated, and 47 others were injured when a guardrail gave way on a dark stairwell at a school during a power blackout last Monday.
  • A woman with a torch shone the light onto the water, following along the guardrail on-board, trying to spot a body.
  • I kept going, past distance markers on an improvised driving range, through a weedy ditch full of golf balls at the end of the camp property, over the guardrail and onto the margin of the state road.
  • The council is also proposing to close a gap in a nearby pedestrian guardrail to stop people crossing at a dangerous point.
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