How to Use balance beam in a Sentence

balance beam

noun
  • My father built us forts, swing sets, beds, balance beams.
    Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Think back to grade school and the days of walking on the balance beam, or doing jump rope, or four square.
    Peter San Nicolas, Ramona Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The girl extended her arms to the left and right, like a gymnast teetering on a balance beam.
    CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
  • At 5-foot-3, Jaime had brown eyes, summertime freckles and medals from the balance beam.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Fox, of Houston, Texas, earned a score of 9.85 in the balance beam, the fourth best score in that event in school history.
    Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Arduino will compete in the all-around, while McKellar will compete on uneven bars and Yarussi on the balance beam.
    baltimoresun.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Woida didn’t fall, scoring a 9.48 on the balance beam in the individual competition.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Acrobatic gymnastics focuses solely on tumbling and balancing skills on the floor — apparatuses like the vault, balance beam, high bars and rings are not part of the sport.
    John-John Williams Iv, Howard County Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The 22-year-old took the top scores on floor, vault and balance beam but placed third on bars.
    Vanna Quiroz, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Wieber was also bronze medalist on the balance beam in the same event.
    Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • The Utes drew the rotation of starting on the balance beam, their best event.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Mar. 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
  • The move came at the finale of Biles' minute-and-a-half-long routine, which ended on the balance beam.
    Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Davino, 11: second on the balance beam, third in the all-around, and fourth on the vault and in the floor exercise.
    Mike May, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Paige Yu from Highland placed second in the all-around and balance beam.
    Cameron Fields, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Gophers to watch: Lexy Ramler has a chance to place in the all-around, balance beam, uneven bars and the vault.
    Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Biles will be joined by Jones in the all-around, floor, uneven bars and balance beam finals.
    Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Saraiva went on to compete in all four events—uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault—for the team final.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • She'll be joined on balance beam by fellow American Suni Lee, herself on a comeback journey that almost kept her out of the Games.
    NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024

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