How to Use balance beam in a Sentence
balance beam
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Trimble was the top scorer on vault, uneven bars, and balance beam.
— Lauren Green, Philly.com, 2 Oct. 2017 -
The others include another vault, two floor skills and a balance beam skill.
— Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 30 July 2024 -
While training as a gymnast, Chelsea fell off of a balance beam at the age of 10 and injured her back.
— CBS News, 16 Jan. 2018 -
Gymnasts will learn the fundamentals and work on floor, vault, parallel bars and balance beam.
— Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017 -
By way of a warm-up, our host started us on a short Parkour course consisting of low walls, balance beams, and a tilted glass walkway.
— Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018 -
The highest scores from the Tigers came from Milliet with a 9.9 on both the balance beam and floor routine.
— Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018 -
Milliet took the win in balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercise with 9.9s on each apparatus.
— Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Obstacles on the course include climbing walls, a rope climb, a mud pit, a hay bale hill climb, uneven parallel bars, a balance beam and a 2.5-mile run, with jumps and crawls.
— Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017 -
Maddie Giglio did not picture herself winning a medal on balance beam during Saturday's state championship finals.
— C.r. Walker, Daily Southtown, 19 Feb. 2018 -
Two uncharacteristic falls off the balance beam for Florida left the meet's final score in question, but the Gators emerged victorious.
— Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 3 Feb. 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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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