pommel
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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
Rhys McClenaghan completed the gymnastics' 'Grand Slam' after winning gold on the pommel horse apparatus.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
Team USA's Stephen Nedoroscik was waiting for his pommel horse routine, glasses on and in the zone.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
Once the glasses came off, the 25-year-old turned into a pommel machine, and delivered a nerveless performances in both the team and individual events.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
Lee rested both hands on the pommel of his saddle.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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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
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Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
And after I had pommeled off the two pounds she'd gained at a twelve-course dinner the night before, she begins to tell me of her charities.
From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington
Then, indeed, they separated, thoroughly pommeled and frightened.
From Peter the Priest by Mór Jókai
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
Every man endeavoured to be the first in making his exit, the door and passage were blocked up; each individual was pommelled by the person that happened to be behind him.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
To get well pommelled for his pains, and do no good to any one, himself included.
From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson
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
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
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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
"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
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
Hilda, in the excitement of the moment, had stopped to exchange a word with the doctor's coachman as he stood by the horses, pommelling his chest and clapping his hands.
From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
“He's afraid,” said the boy who had advised the more severe pommelling, “old 'fraid-cat!”
From Five Little Peppers at School by Hermann Heyer
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
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
They shook Roy into consciousness with joyous riot, pommelling him with affectionate roughness till he rose and joined with them stiffly.
From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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