How to Use salchow in a Sentence

salchow

noun
  • The edge jumps are the loop, the salchow and the axel, while the toe jumps are the toe loop, the flip and the lutz.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Edge jumps like the salchow require having a feel for the ice with the pressure of the blade to spring up.
    Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Chen, who is from Salt Lake City, took off with an opening quad salchow.
    Bernie Wilson, Chron, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The kitchen’s salchows, lutzes and triple axels are matched by a classical sense of what tastes good with what.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Here’s your cheat sheet for telling six figure skating jumps apart during the Winter Olympics, from an axel to a toe loop, salchow and lutz jump.
    Alice Park, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
  • One of the six figure skating jumps (along with the flip, loop, toe loop, lutz, and salchow — more on them to come) but the only one that requires the skater to jump into the air while facing forward.
    Maura Sullivan Hill, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018
  • First after the short program, the Utah native opened with a quadruple flip and landed a quad salchow in the first half of his routine set to a selection of music by Philip Glass.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Valieva first performed a quad salchow in her free skate, then landed another quad to loop.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
  • During her women's long program for the team event, Valieva landed a quadruple salchow.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Duhamel and partner Eric Radford grabbed third place in pairs and made history by executing the first throw quad salchow in Olympic history.
    Charles Curtis, For The Win, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Alexandra Trusova, who won the junior Grand Prix final in December, can land a quadruple salchow, even if imperfectly, at age 13.
    New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • At a competition in Russia this week, one of Tutberidze’s junior skaters, Alexandra Trusova, 13, boldly attempted two quads in her routine, landing a quad salchow and falling on a quad toe.
    JerÉ Longman and Victor Mather, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • At a competition in Russia this week, one of Tutberidze's junior skaters, Alexandra Trusova, 13, boldly attempted two quads in her routine, landing a quad salchow and falling on a quad toe.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Among her milestones Monday at Capital Indoor Stadium was a quad salchow and a quad toe that included a triple-toe combination.
    NBC News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • During the 45-minute session, Valieva threw down four quad jumps, including one in a potentially high-scoring combination with a triple salchow.
    Graham Dunbar and James Ellingworth, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Since then, Carrillo has notched six top-10 finishes in major international events and added the difficult quadruple salchow to his repertoire.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022

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