chin-up

Example Sentences

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"We also had a chin-up bar and would try to do maximum chin-ups. We were so lucky to have training buddies to push each other along."

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

Holding a bow steady at full draw is like hanging in a chin-up: It’s not something you can do for very long, over and over again.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2022

An expectation to do that extra chin-up when your arms burn can and should coexist with an expectation to seek help when you’re experiencing depression.

From Slate • May 31, 2022

The second silver-medalist—the surgeon—adopted a chin-up, impassive look, the same stoic face he wore on the golf course.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 1, 2019

Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson