How to Use balance beam in a Sentence

balance beam

noun
  • Biles won four gold medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics and a bronze medal on the balance beam.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Biles still made the event finals in vault, balance beam and floor and all-around.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • Kids can climb, jump and run over rope bridges, balance beams and so much more.
    Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Following that speech, Biles went on to wow the crowd on the balance beam.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 25 Oct. 2021
  • A week ago O’Keefe earned the Utes’ first 10.0 of the season with a perfect routine on the balance beam.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The 18-year-old Ms. Lee, who finished fifth on the balance beam, won the Olympic all-around title.
    Will Graves, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2021
  • But, in the lead-up to the last final, on Tuesday, on the balance beam, Biles’s name appeared on the start list.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Women compete in just four, with the balance beam and uneven bars added to the floor and vault.
    Claire Galofaro, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The Fire Melt Burger ($9) played with heat like a gold medal Olympic gymnast on the balance beam.
    Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Canzoni captured first in the balance beam with a 9.450.
    Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The balance beam final is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. at the time of writing.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Biles still left Tokyo with a medal, bringing home bronze for balance beam.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Simone Biles returned to win bronze on the balance beam.
    Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • At their first meet of the season, their six gymnasts all scored above 9.0 on balance beam.
    Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Four gold medals at Rio, plus a bronze on the balance beam, turned Biles into a household name.
    Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • Biles also earned bronze on balance beam in Rio, the only one of her 2016 Olympic medals that was not gold.
    Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Simone also came in first in vault, balance beam, and floor.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 7 June 2021
  • Biles dropped out of other finals but won a bronze on balance beam.
    Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The balance beam started off hundreds of years ago as a log suspended in the air.
    Claire Galofaro, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Biles withdrew from three event finals but returned to earn a bronze medal on the balance beam.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Biles finished with a silver in the team event and a bronze in the balance beam to give her seven Olympic medals for her career.
    John McClain, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Aug. 2021
  • On Tuesday, she is set to compete on the balance beam final.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • For the women, this includes balance beam, uneven bars, vault and floor.
    Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 27 July 2021
  • Delahunty also finished fifth on the balance beam and third all-around.
    Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2022
  • And that was with mistakes by Biles on both balance beam and floor exercise.
    USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Memmel only did two events at the Classic, vault and balance beam.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 May 2021
  • Teammate Sunisa Lee, who won the gold medal in the individual all-around, did not place in the balance beam event.
    Alex Scott, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Chiles finished 40th in the all-around and ended her day in tears after her balance beam routine.
    New York Times, 26 July 2021
  • Chinese gymnasts Guan Chenchen and Tang Xijing have swept the gold and silver in balance beam.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Biles returned for the final competition on the balance beam and won a bronze medal.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2021

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