How to Use dismount in a Sentence

dismount

1 of 2 verb

• The cyclist dismounted and walked her bike across the street.
• The gymnast dismounted from the parallel bars.
• The cyclists coast down each hill and then dismount to push their bikes up the next.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• The roper must then catch up to the calf, lasso it around its neck, dismount the horse and run to the calf.
  — Tess Demeyer, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020
• But to cross that last line means dismounting from the moral high horse.
  — David French, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• The victim then dismounted the bicycle, and the man took the bike and fled, police said.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 21 June 2017
• To follow the letter of the law, please dismount and walk your bike at these locations.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 20 June 2018
• If that dream is finally to be realized, the ACLU must dismount its high horse and get the hell out of the way.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 19 Aug. 2017
• The men dismounted their bike and approached Afghan soldiers who were at the front of a mixed U.S. Afghan patrol.
  — NBC News, 15 Nov. 2019
• Then the Olympic silver medalist stuck her bars dismount.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Long ago, French soldiers would mettre un pied à terre—that is, dismount their steeds at the end of the day and spend the night in transient housing.
  — Kristin Tablang, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2022
• Once the eight seconds is reached, the rider looks for a safe opportunity to dismount, and the ride can be judged.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 19 May 2022
• Even cyclists passing through dismounted and all silently bowed their heads to join the rest of the city in a moment of silence.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 25 May 2017
• The event is comparable to men’s tie-down roping, except the cowgirls are not required to dismount and tie the calf.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2022
• Before dismounting to check things out, Richard took a moment.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• There will be lanes to approach and dismount the bikes, so racers maintain safe distances from others, Moran said.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• Walkers can get off the trail in a single step, while bikers have to dismount and rut into nearby shrubs and cacti.
  — Outside Online, 15 June 2021
• There the girls watched as some of the women climbed into a long canoe, dismounted on the other side, and then proceeded to board the waiting plane.
  — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• There were four of them on horseback, cowboys down to their hats and boots and spurs, who dismounted and tied up their animals in a shady spot near the restaurant.
  — Tim Madigan, star-telegram.com, 23 June 2017
• With the race serving as the start of the day’s Pick 6, the other nine horses were taken back out of the gate and the jockeys dismounted while bettors were given time to change their picks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2019
• The move involves two twists and two somersaults while dismounting.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Despite subtle tweaks in an effort to make the course safer, riders bunched together were still forced to dismount at the first rocky uphill.
  — Dave Skretta, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• The rider must corral the animal with a rope, dismount their horse and tie three of the calf's legs together with a separate rope that is clenched in their teeth.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 28 Feb. 2023
• The supporters contended a jump should stand if the competitor dismounted the mat before the bar fell.
  — Aaron Carter, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Police believe Gulledge may have disregarded a stop sign and warnings for cyclists to dismount and walk their bikes across the road.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2022
• The cyclists often dismount and carry their bikes up hills or over obstacles.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 5 Dec. 2022
• As if on command, the men dismount, and now everything happens very fast and wordlessly.
  — Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The checkpoint staff scanned his animals, looked over the vet book, scribbled a few notes and just like that, Peck was off, never dismounting his sled runners.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Neither was the double double—two twists and two somersaults—that Biles did dismounting the balance beam the day before.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
• Upon command, the rancheros dismounted in unison, and Sanchez presented his saber to Capt.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020

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dismount

2 of 2 noun

• That was by far the best dismount that she’s ever done.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
• A buzzer signals the rider to end the ride and prepare to dismount.
  — Tom McGhee, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2017
• The smile appeared before her feet landed on the mat on the dismount.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2021
• Captain Picard can still stick the dismount on a speech.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 20 July 2019
• But as the male dismounts, the pedipalp grasps and twists the scapus, snipping it off as if with scissors.
  — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2017
• There was a bit of controversy around how the dismount would be scored.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2019
• For one thing, none of these people could land a double-double dismount.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• And then, to top it off, Tonka sometimes wouldn’t let Kayla dismount.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2018
• On Friday, the 22-year old became the first gymnast to attempt and land a double-double dismount off of a high beam.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Two of the latest ones are a triple twisting double tuck on floor and a double twisting double tuck dismount off the beam.
  — Jill Martin, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019
• On his final attempt, Marino's feet cleared the pole, but his body couldn't quite avoid it during his dismount.
  — Aaron Carter, Philly.com, 26 May 2017
• Nedoroscik hit his dismount and earned a 13.65 — a score that would still place him fifth on the apparatus at the end of the first night of competition.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
• The video shows the hooded man dismount from the bicycle and running after the woman, chasing her down the sidewalk and into the middle of the street.
  — Fox News, 7 Oct. 2021
• Russia began the day on still rings, and Dalaloyan landed his dismount without any sign of pain.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
• My first stop was the Karura River waterfalls, a 49-foot liquid free fall worth the dismount and steep descent.
  — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2017
• On a loop in my mind: Simone Biles successfully lands a triple-double on the floor and a double-double dismount from the beam.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• Chiles, like her teammates, had a rough debut in Tokyo, falling to her hands and knees after her dismount from the beam -- a costly error.
  — Amy Bass, CNN, 27 July 2021
• Malabuyo’s routine would be enough after the freshman stuck her dismount.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2022
• Neville says that e-bike hybrids are best used as a dismount from an existing scout vehicle.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
• Maybe some of this is up for consideration during the dismount.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2020
• The four other American men were yelling and standing before his dismount.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2021
• James tells Elsa to keep riding as he, Shea, and Thomas dismount with rifles and begin picking off the hand-gun-wielding bandits.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2022
• The teen who was swinging dismounts, and the woman walks over in her blue-and-white running shorts and quarter-sleeved shirt, and pounds her palms on the large orange swing, stopping its momentum.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• Emmert might as well dismount from the high horse, hand in his sheriff’s badge and enter the transfer portal to irrelevance.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• None of the skills besides her dismount — a full- or double-twisting double back — require twisting.
  — Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2021
• Biles was able to compete in the balance beam final, winning a bronze medal after switching to a different dismount that didn’t have any twists.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
• The same conflict is playing out on Blake Street, where some cyclists are annoyed by a new dismount-and-walk policy on Rockies game days.
  — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 22 July 2019
• There was no such comparison available for her beam dismount, as men don’t compete on beam.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
• Skinner had several wobbles on balance beam and was low on the dismount, forcing her to pitch forward.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 28 June 2021
• But after nailing her floor and vault routines Sunday, Chiles broke form on uneven bars and then fell off the beam once before crashing her dismount.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 25 July 2021

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