pommel

A European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic champion on the pommel horse, he is undeniably one of the sport's greats, but we've been warned to expect 'Rhys 2.0' in Glasgow.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

McClenaghan, who triumphed on the pommel horse in Paris, said it was "a huge honour".

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

Then Nedoroscik performed a near-flawless pommel horse routine that helped Team USA secure the bronze, the United States men’s first Olympic medal since 2008.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Lithe gymnasts twirled on parallel bars and uneven bars and took long running leaps at pommel horses, trying to time their precise movements to coincide with the slow roll of the ship.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

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 Charles Brey

Eustace instantly let go, and Peter stood for a second staring down at the two red rings round his wrists, then, as Eustace turned unconcernedly away, dashed at his back and pommelled it.

From Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

All the more reason for bringing the undertaking to a swift conclusion: wherefore I pommelled and spurred my hapless steed along with a ruthlessness of which at any other time I should be heartily ashamed.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

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 Harold Avery

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

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 Gabriel Franchere

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

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 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

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

From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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 Barbara Yechton

Presently they reached a point from which the cistern-keeper was visible, seated, as usual, just within the door pommelling the pavement.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace

Upon recovering from the effects of my pommelling, I sprang from bed and donned my clothes with all speed, and then went to pay my friend Mr Wilson the compliments of the season.

From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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