dumbbell

Example Sentences

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Today, there are alarms that turn off when would-be snoozers shoot a fake gun at a target or curl a small dumbbell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

“Man, I’ll be seeing his little Instagram posts, the benches, the dumbbell benches. Hey, he can get me whenever he’s ready.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

"The dumbbell thus acts a bit like the needle on a compass, allowing us to read off the z coordinate according to its orientation," says Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

He was injured returning a dumbbell to its rack in Toronto’s weight room.

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2023

“First the telephone was ringing and then I hit my leg on the dumbbell and then I failed English, see?”

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers