pommel

Ward sat seventh after the floor exercise, but streaked into the lead after a splendid performance on the pommel - routinely his strongest event.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

Conrad refers to one of the revelations of Floyd’s hidden abilities: “Can Hopper do the pommel horse?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024

Hazel accidentally gave herself the Heimlich maneuver with the pommel of her sword and curled on the deck, moaning and coughing up the taste of katobleps poison.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From David and the Phoenix by Joan Raysor

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 L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Then, indeed, they separated, thoroughly pommeled and frightened.

From Peter the Priest by Mór Jókai

The invaders, pushed and pommelled by dint of such audacity and hard hitting, were cooped up like sheep into narrower and narrower space.

From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns

Shrouded in earth-coloured garments, they shrieked, strove, rang their bells, kicked their donkeys, elbowed their rivals, pommelled their camels, recited the Koran, or testified with frenzy, the terrific honesty of all their dealings.

From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens

A man is apt to think that his insurance is settled and done with, when he has been pommelled about by the doctors and approved by the board.

From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

To get well pommelled for his pains, and do no good to any one, himself included.

From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson

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 Percy Addleshaw

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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 William Makepeace Thackeray

“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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

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

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

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 Owen Johnson

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

From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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 Peter Cunningham

As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

A bag stuffed with hay is so round that it is very difficult to keep upon it without rolling off, and there was much pommelling and flattening before the beds were at all tenable.

From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon

In my vexation I could have fallen on the "Jackdaw" and given him a good pommelling for having induced me to meddle with such an exceptionally lively "jumper" in school time.

From Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery