How to Use slalom in a Sentence

slalom

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• The rescue horse that zipped me through the slalom course?
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2022
• Shiffrin won back-to-back slalom races, the 75th and 76th wins of her career.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Shiffrin won the slalom at the 2014 Games and is a four-time world champion in the event.
  — Noah Trister, ajc, 7 Feb. 2022
• France's Clement Noel captured the gold in men's slalom.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• Folks tuning in to her slalom event were just as shocked by the turn of events.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2022
• In the combined, skiers have to perform in the slalom and downhill.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• The combined adds the times from one downhill run and one slalom run.
  — Bernie Wilson, Chron, 10 Feb. 2022
• Shiffrin had seemed like a lock for some kind of medal in the giant slalom or slalom.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• The combined is one run each of both downhill and slalom.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
• Shiffrin has now won the slalom portion of the Killington event in each of the five times it has been held since 2016.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• Shiffrin will race the combined, which is one run of downhill and one run of slalom.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
• In slalom and giant slalom, skiers race through a course of gates making quick turns on the snow.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• Shiffrin failed to finish her first run in each of her first two races — the giant slalom and slalom.
  — Noah Trister, ajc, 9 Feb. 2022
• This could be the day, however, with the women's slalom on tap.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
• Andrea Mead Lawrence won the slalom and giant slalom at the 1952 Oslo Olympics, which doubled as the worlds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Next week brings the slalom and giant slalom races, the events that Shiffrin dominates.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Shiffrin, meanwhile, skied out once again, this time in the slalom portion of the Alpine combined.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2022
• The final run of the men's slalom will air live as part of NBC's late-night coverage. ...
  — Noah Trister, ajc, 14 Feb. 2022
• The slalom and giant slalom are held on the even steeper Gran Risa trail, hitting 69%.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• But the snow surface for both men and women in the slalom was the same — resembling a sheet of sheer ice.
  — Andrew Dampf, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2021
• The fifth Alpine Olympic event is the combined, in which the times from one run of slalom and one downhill run are combined.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Shiffrin missed the fourth gate in the slalom event, disqualifying her from the race.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2022
• Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the youngest Olympic slalom gold medalist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Kristoffersen has 19 slalom wins and now five in giant slalom.
  — Andrew Dampf, ajc, 19 Dec. 2021
• That’s where Shiffrin got her first World Cup win, a slalom in December 2012.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• Shiffrin could break the record by the end of the current ski season, with another three slalom races to go.
  — Christina MacFarlane and Steven Poole, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• Shiffrin will have the chance to pass Vonn during a night slalom this coming Tuesday.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 8 Jan. 2023
• Miller has won slalom, giant slalom, super-G and downhill races in a span of 16 days.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• What to Consider There is not a lot of lateral padding to absorb the wear and tear that comes with certain slalom moves.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
• The pair slalom breezily through their long, downtempo, ambient-jazz passages with racks of synths strapped to their back.
  — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023

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slalom

2 of 2 verb

• Luis Suarez slalomed his way down the left-hand side and swung in a delightful cross to the back post for Coutinho to finish on the slide.
  — SI.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Henrique then scored late in the second after taking the puck from Tomas Hertl and slaloming to the crease to roof a backhand.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• Certainly, even a first-year space law student could slalom through those rules.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 19 June 2018
• On weekends, many young men drive their cars out to the desert to go off-roading, slaloming down the sides of sand dunes as spectators watch.
  — Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• The averaged was padded by runs like in the third quarter when Jones slalomed through the Arizona State offense, bursting out of arm tackles, for a 64-yard score.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• How could anyone judge a soul bold enough to slalom through England’s entire defense in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals?
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Today, roughly 3 million people pass through it each year, slaloming down Highway 1 on one of the county’s most iconic lengths of road.
  — Sarah Feldberg, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• Seconds later as I slalom tightly spaced cones at speeds that don’t seem possible for such a large vehicle, all thoughts of price and prestige are out of mind.
  — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2017
• Its highlight is an enormous parade of skiers and boarders decked out in Pride flags and costumes, slaloming down the mountain, and then marching through Whistler Village.
  — Miles Griffis, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
• Rafael Leão slalomed past several defenders to pull one back in style for Milan’s only real highlight.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• As the skiers slalom and snowboarders snowcross, the Chinese government is likely to be working hard behind the scenes on a perhaps even trickier feat: controlling the weather.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• The tune moves through peaks and valleys, with swirling drones smacking into tricky tempos, slaloming riffs, and slinking trombone, and then dissolves into a mass of electronic static.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 20 July 2017
• And what’s become of the old roundup is a big daily dose of rodeo—saddle and bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, bull riding and tie-down roping, plus cowgirls and cowboys slaloming through barrels on fast horses.
  — Rob Fleder, Newsweek, 17 May 2017
• Since then, as new facts have emerged, Turner has been left to slalom along, haplessly revising and extending his previous remarks.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• This music is packed with ideas, but there’s little here as satisfying as how Berne and Noriega blow their twinned lines, slaloming through color and groove with razor precision.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Sep. 2017
• Anti-scooter activists tend to paint scooter riders as kamikaze daredevils, slaloming through cars and pedestrians.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• No, adventurous chamber-music group the Claudia Quintet, and the wildly slaloming Endangered Blood.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 20 Oct. 2017
• The group’s output lands on either side of the chamberlike feel of his early trio: complex, slaloming pieces that provide a hothouse environment for charged improvisation on one hand, and atmospheric works that privilege color and mood on the other.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
• Neymar was the opposite: endless slaloming dribbles, drifting effortlessly past defenders with sure touches and elegant movement — all culminating in cul-de-sacs.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• Luis Suarez slalomed his way down the left-hand side and swung in a delightful cross to the back post for Coutinho to finish on the slide.
  — SI.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Henrique then scored late in the second after taking the puck from Tomas Hertl and slaloming to the crease to roof a backhand.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• Certainly, even a first-year space law student could slalom through those rules.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 19 June 2018
• On weekends, many young men drive their cars out to the desert to go off-roading, slaloming down the sides of sand dunes as spectators watch.
  — Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
• The averaged was padded by runs like in the third quarter when Jones slalomed through the Arizona State offense, bursting out of arm tackles, for a 64-yard score.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• How could anyone judge a soul bold enough to slalom through England’s entire defense in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals?
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Today, roughly 3 million people pass through it each year, slaloming down Highway 1 on one of the county’s most iconic lengths of road.
  — Sarah Feldberg, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• Seconds later as I slalom tightly spaced cones at speeds that don’t seem possible for such a large vehicle, all thoughts of price and prestige are out of mind.
  — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2017
• Its highlight is an enormous parade of skiers and boarders decked out in Pride flags and costumes, slaloming down the mountain, and then marching through Whistler Village.
  — Miles Griffis, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
• Rafael Leão slalomed past several defenders to pull one back in style for Milan’s only real highlight.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• As the skiers slalom and snowboarders snowcross, the Chinese government is likely to be working hard behind the scenes on a perhaps even trickier feat: controlling the weather.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022

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