How to Use vaulting in a Sentence

vaulting

noun
  • Both have a chance in the same events, vaulting and floor exercise.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2021
  • Pole vaulting is such a unique sport — speed, strength and agility.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Utah gymnast Cammy Hall has a few goals for her vaulting.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In 2007, photos of then-teenage Stokke pole vaulting went viral.
    Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But at the heart of pole-vaulting is a humbling sense of inevitability.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • The first was a vaulting, pirouetting snag over the sideline, the second a sheer outmuscling of his defender in the end zone.
    New York Times, 27 Apr. 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
  • Nobody was allowed to work under the vaulting, which was cordoned off.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2020
  • At high school in Byron Center, a suburb of 5,800, Chris focused on pole-vaulting.
    New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Unvault Maps – There are a ton of maps just sitting around idle still after content vaulting.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The Stanford gymnast was seventh on high bar (his starting event) and ninth on floor exercise, rings and vaulting.
    Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2021
  • Katie excelled in pole vaulting at Olmsted Falls High School.
    cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Dozens of people cheered and chanted for Skinner, 24, who won a silver medal on Sunday in Olympic women’s vaulting.
    Kaila White, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • In the pole vaulting events, participants brought their own poles to use and on the track, starting blocks were sanitized every time a new heat began.
    Jack Williams, azcentral, 15 June 2020
  • Track and field — even with the riskier events, such as pole vaulting and high jumping — bears little resemblance to contact sports such as football, hockey or lacrosse.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • One rotation later, Biles hit the vaulting table at a crooked angle on her first run and landed out of bounds, taking another step off the mat.
    Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 25 July 2021
  • During her senior year, Stokke was ranked second in California and the nation for pole vaulting.
    Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Jared enjoys weight lifting, pole vaulting and meeting new people.
    Kara Warner, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2022
  • Pole vaulting doesn't exceed the popularity of track and field sprinting events.
    Dana Scott, azcentral, 20 June 2020
  • Meanwhile, Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 2 is set to go live today, undoubtedly bringing changes to the map, new items and the vaulting of some other gear.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Nageotte turned to pole vaulting in the seventh grade while attending Olmsted Falls Middle School.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Bungie did say that content vaulting would help with Destiny’s technical challenges, but so far things have only gotten worse.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Pole vaulting events haven't started at the Tokyo Olympics yet, but competitors are already suffering injuries!
    Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2021
  • That's a roundoff onto a springboard, a backward dive onto the vaulting table and two full backflips in the difficult pike position.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Those skills translate well to pole vaulting — body control, muscle memory.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The exhibit covers the past eight decades, going back to the 1930s, and spotlights male and female athletes from baseball, football, track and field, diving, cycling, pole vaulting, horse racing and sports car racing.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Dillon Dechristopher said the hardest part about of learning the basics of pole vaulting was finding himself in all sorts of weird positions while airborne — like flying upside down.
    Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 6 May 2021
  • The priestess’s jealousy explodes into a trio that at its climax suddenly shifts from minor to major in a glorious vaulting phrase.
    James Jorden, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Later, at 14, after leaving gymnastics and picking up pole vaulting, the back injury returned.
    Glamour, 24 Jan. 2018
  • But what was ignored completely were some of the fundamental basics of Crucible, the lack of new maps and modes, in particular after the removal of maps and modes when Beyond Light content vaulting hit.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021

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