pommel

Conrad leans in confidentially: “I have been asked if that’s really Dave doing the pommel horse, and my answer is, ‘I don’t know.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The 26-year-old, from County Down, Northern Ireland, won a gold medal for Team Ireland in the pommel horse at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

Nedoroscik secured his second bronze medal in the individual pommel horse final on Aug. 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Team USA's Stephen Nedoroscik was waiting for his pommel horse routine, glasses on and in the zone.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024

It made a few protesting shudders, as he pressed down with both hands on the pommel of the sword.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In the team finals however, a nightmarish set on pommels sent the Americans tumbling to fifth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Hilts and pommels were and are the most common decoration, for dragonglass is too brittle to make a useful crossguard.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017

The 1996 Olympic pommel horse champion Donghua Li performed a surprisingly moving routine to pommels attached to the balance beam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2016

The 7th Century hoard of 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses was valued at £3.285m.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2015

They hand their burdens to others while they mount, then take the sacks again and loop them over the pommels of their saddles.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

David cried, pleaded, pommeled the Phoenix with his fists.

From David and the Phoenix by Raysor, Joan

Bud and Mel had the advantage of surprise, and soon pommeled and grappled their foes into submission.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Brey, Charles

The workmen, seeing the reinforcements, beat a retreat, carrying their sadly pommeled comrades with them, but their insulting language was not restricted until they had passed out of hearing.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

He settled the arms of the see—gules, a sword erect in pale argent, pommelled and hilted or, surmounted with two keys in saltire of the last.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Addleshaw, Percy

The saddles for women differ in form, being furnished with the antlers of a deer, so as to resemble the high pommelled saddle of the Mexican ladies.

From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Franchere, Gabriel

The Loco-Focos, thus hemmed in between two fires, were gloriously pommelled for about five minutes.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

A bag of sand, equal in weight to his adversary, was daily pommelled by the champion of America until he could make it swing and recoil satisfactorily.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

He was shaken, pinched, and pommelled, but all to no purpose; his snores only became louder, and the style more fantastic.

From Soldiers of the Queen by Avery, Harold

Old friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

He caught the subway with the crowd of stockbrokers who came romping out of the stock exchange like released schoolboys after the day's tension, pommeling and shoving each other with released glee.

From Making Money by Johnson, Owen

"A generous fellow plays for the play, a sordid one for the stake; an old fogy sits by and smokes the pipe of tranquillity, while Jack and Tom are pommeling each other in the ring."

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

“In my castle,” says Joinville, “whosoever uses bad language receives a good pommeling, and this has nearly put down that bad habit.”

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Dick was stunned for a moment, and lay quite still, so the deer left off pommelling him, and stood looking at him.

From The Dog Crusoe and his Master by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove; not in thumping and pommelling king Amulius's herdsmen.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

In this kind of moral pommelling which sensitive women feel—as they do—how could I have indulged!

From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Why," said Phil, "I couldn't believe my eyes at first; but true it was, all the same,—there was our gentle 'rosebud' pommelling away at a fellow nearly twice his size!

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]

His will-power grows by a species of pommelling; not by the higher tactics of wrestling.

From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart