How to Use pommel horse in a Sentence

pommel horse

noun
  • Briones tied for fourth on parallel bars and sixth on pommel horse.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2021
  • Wiskus ended on pommel horse, which is not a high-scoring event for him.
    — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • The pommel horse has, in some years, been a weak spot for American men.
    — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 2 Aug. 2024
  • This is just as exciting as the time Christian did his pommel horse trick!
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The surge of viral memes that followed his first pommel horse routine was extra.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Eric Mitchell won the state title last season on the pommel horse.
    — Bob Narang, Naperville Sun, 15 May 2018
  • Just last year, Eric Mitchell won the state title on pommel horse.
    — C.r. Walker, Naperville Sun, 10 May 2018
  • Olympic pommel horse hero Stephen Nedoroscik was also left off the team.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Medals will also be handed out in men's floor exercise, pommel horse and still rings.
    — Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • From the pommel horse to the dance floor, the summer of Stephen Nedoroscik will roll on.
    — Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Wolverines lead the national rankings in high bar, still rings and pommel horse.
    — Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 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, cult sensation Stephen Nedoroscik got the bronze.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The pommel horse requires massive upper body and core strength as gymnasts use only their arms to glide up and down the body of the horse.
    — Izzie Ramirez, Vox, 2 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Khoi Young, alternate Khoi Young competes on the pommel horse during the Trials.
    — Alice Park / Minneapolis, Minn., TIME, 1 July 2024
  • 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
  • The glasses-wearing, Rubik’s Cube-solving gymnast spent almost 2½ on the bench waiting for his turn on the pommel horse.
    — Kimberly Aguirre, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The Indianapolis gymnast finished sixth in pommel horse Sunday night at the Tokyo Olympics.
    — 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

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