How to Use pommel horse in a Sentence

pommel horse

noun
  • Hashimoto, who also won the all-around titles at the past two world championships, fell off the pommel horse and could claw back to just sixth place.
    Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Arber earned the pommel horse title with a score of 7.9, and finished second on the floor and rings.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
  • Naddour won a bronze medal in pommel horse at the Rio Olympics and was an Olympic alternate in 2012.
    Jeffrey Metcalfe, azcentral, 20 June 2018
  • Just last year, Eric Mitchell won the state title on pommel horse.
    C.r. Walker, Naperville Sun, 10 May 2018
  • Eric Mitchell won the state title last season on the pommel horse.
    Bob Narang, Naperville Sun, 15 May 2018
  • Wiskus ended on pommel horse, which is not a high-scoring event for him.
    Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • Briones tied for fourth on parallel bars and sixth on pommel horse.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2021
  • The women will compete in vault and uneven bars, and the men in floor exercise and pommel horse.
    Joshua Berlinger and Adam Renton, CNN, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The Wolverines lead the national rankings in high bar, still rings and pommel horse.
    Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • This is just as exciting as the time Christian did his pommel horse trick!
    Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 12 Feb. 2018
  • His parents even bought a pommel horse for his backyard.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2021
  • Vidmar’s gold medal on the pommel horse and Conner’s gold on the parallel bars only added to the legend that was the 1984 squad.
    Dominic Faria, Ethan Ferguson, Akshat Jain, Annabelle Del Bosque, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • Whitlock was bronze medalist at London in 2012, thus tying the record for most medals in pommel horse.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Juda, the Big Ten gymnast of the year, has the nation's highest all-around score and is ranked in the top two in three events; Bock tops the rankings in pommel horse and still rings.
    Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Winning bronze on the pommel horse made him Ireland’s first medalist.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Alec Yoder, who wasn’t a team member and won his Olympic berth as a plus-one event specialist, will vie for a medal on the pommel horse.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
  • Mikulak on pommel horse Saturday – over the two-day meet.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 June 2021
  • Bower made top five on three events — pommel horse, floor and vaulting — but 10th on high bar and 14th rings and parallel bars.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2021
  • Bower was third on pommel horse, sixth on floor, seventh on vault, 10th on rings and parallel bars and 11th on high bar.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
  • To someone who couldn’t even get himself over the pommel horse in phys ed, this looked like a superpower.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Or gymnastics, where the men’s pommel horse final will start at 6:44 p.m. on Aug. 1. Surfing?
    John Branch, New York Times, 25 July 2021
  • Medals will also be handed out in men's floor exercise, pommel horse and still rings.
    Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • Khoi Young, alternate Khoi Young competes on the pommel horse during the Trials.
    Alice Park / Minneapolis, Minn., TIME, 1 July 2024
  • Alec Yoder, who excels on pommel horse, earned the individual spot in Tokyo and is a first-time Olympian, too.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • Max Whitlock won Britain’s first gold medal Saturday on pommel horse.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Max Whitlock won Britain's first gold medal Saturday on pommel horse.
    James Ellingworth, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Naddour is a five-time U.S. champion and three-time world finalist in pommel horse.
    Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The Indianapolis gymnast finished sixth in pommel horse Sunday night at the Tokyo Olympics.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2021
  • His athletic prowess came on the pommel horse, vault and parallel bars.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
  • In the pommel horse, athletes swing themselves around and across the apparatus using only their hands to hold themselves up.
    Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 27 June 2021

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