How to Use lutz in a Sentence

lutz

noun
  • Two other skaters are trying the quad lutz in the short program.
    — Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Tennell went down during her a triple toe loop after landing a triple lutz.
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The routine collapsed on another quad lutz try.
    — Zack Pierce, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Tennell fell on the second part of her triple lutz-triple toe loop combination.
    — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Rippon skated well, with one misstep in a triple lutz during the free skate portion of the event.
    — Andrew W. Lehren, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Messing’s quad toe jump is dependable but his quad lutz is less consistent.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2019
  • In landing that jump, Zhou became the first ever man to complete a clean quad lutz at the Olympics.
    — Chris Schleicher, Time, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Quad lutz Malinin seemed to put the error behind him on his next element.
    — Zack Pierce, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Nakai, too, squandered roughly six points for downgrading a planned triple lutz-triple toe loop combination.
    — Bora Erden, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Wagner had the crowd going for most of her energetic routine, but a flawed lutz as her final jump was costly.
    — Barry Wilner, Houston Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Program highlights included a clean double lutz and a clean double flip combination, as well as a layback spin.
    — baltimoresun.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Teammate Vincent Zhou, who finished sixth, became the first skater to land a quad lutz, the most challenging quad jump, at the Olympics.
    — Time, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Liu, skating first in the final group of six skaters, opened with a triple flip, and then after a double Axel landed a triple lutz, triple loop combination.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Naumov’s performance wasn’t flawless but had its moments, a strong opening quad salchow and a solid triple lutz, triple-toe combination.
    — Reid Laymance, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The 17-year-old was one of three skaters set to try the quad lutz in their short program, according to the Associated Press.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Tennell, a 20-year-old jumping machine, held onto a poor landing on the opening jump of her combination, the triple lutz, but then fell trying the triple toe loop.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Zhou’s commanding finish included a quadruple lutz and two quadruple salchows — one in combination with a triple salchow — two triple axels and four triple jumps.
    — Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Karen Chen bobbled her opening triple lutz, which was supposed to feed into a triple toe, forcing her to adjust the rest of her routine to squeeze in another combination jump.
    — Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • His jumps, including a quad-lutz-triple-toe combination were impeccable, but his rather basic presentation left something to be desired.
    — Chris Schleicher, Time, 16 Feb. 2018
  • But after landing her opening triple lutz, Tennell was unable to hold onto her triple toe loop, falling on the second half of a combination that had become so familiar.
    — Dave Skretta, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Three skaters later came her training comrade, who put down a more difficult program, including a triple lutz-triple loop combination that outdid Medvedeva’s flip-toe loop combo.
    — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
  • And, three skaters later, Zagitova broke the mark by completing a difficult program that included a triple lutz-triple loop combination.
    — Tim Brown, OregonLive.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • From his opening quad lutz to his finishing triple lutz, the Japanese star was nearly perfect, producing an easier but cleaner program than Malinin had earlier.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Chen’s flawed but gritty performance in the free skate, which included a fall on her triple lutz, did let the United States secure the maximum three entries in the women’s event for the 2018 Olympics.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Despite stumbling on a quad lutz jump and forgoing a quad axel for a triple, Malinin’s score of 200 points was enough to hold off a clean and graceful program by Japan’s Shun Sato for the overall gold.
    — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • With a medley of Michael Jackson hits playing, Petrosian — competing as a neutral athlete — whipped through her double axel, landed a triple lutz and capped the performance with a triple flip-triple toe loop that seemed downright effortless.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Hanyu has been the biggest question mark entering the Games; the 23-year-old injured his ankle while training a quadruple lutz jump in practice during a competition last winter and hasn’t competed since November.
    — Time, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Liu landed a triple lutz-triple loop, the hardest combination that any woman attempted, and sat only two points back of leader Ami Nakai and right behind her Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto on the leaderboard.
    — Dave Skretta, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Wearing a white tunic and skating as a character out of Japanese folklore, Abe no Seimei, a kind of soothsayer and supernatural protector, Hanyu landed a quadruple lutz for the first time in competition.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • One of her jump combinations, a triple lutz-triple loop, earns among the highest points in women’s skating, and Liu’s speed and ease in flowing from the first jump immediately into the second with nothing to propel her but her own momentum, often earns her additional points for execution.
    — Alice Park, Time, 1 Feb. 2026

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