How To Use Somersault In A Sentence
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Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
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Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
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One soldier managed to successfully execute the somersault maneuver that most people are familiar with from the childhoods.
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Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
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Gymnasts start early and children as young as two use soft apparatus to learn their first somersault and handspring, under the watchful eyes of more than 20 qualified coaches.
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The starboard ski did a backward somersault over the tail section just as Mike and his crew had feared.
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Eye-witnesses reported seeing the car somersaulting.
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I did a somersault and landed gracefully on my feet.
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A sleek master of gyrating, torpedoing, somersaulting "aquabatics," Mijbal becomes an indefatigable symbol of everything that is playful and self-delighting in the universe.
Dispatches From the Natural World
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Dave got one young gangster round the waist and pitched him off in a somersault.
THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
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An upswell of interest carried the skateboard through the 70s with Southern Californian skateboarders draining swimming pools and carving turns and somersaults off the edge of pools.
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After scoring his spectacular debut goal, Pollock ran over towards Middlesbrough's travelling fans and did a somersault.
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But that did not keep her from somersaulting to the top in the Soviet world of gymnastics.
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The driver and his three passengers were injured after the car went out of control and somersaulted into a farmer's field.
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Trampoline classes teach students the fundamentals of body awareness and training for somersaults, twists, and flips.
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They became fancier as the pike and tuck positions began to dominate , making somersaults possible.
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Acrobatic seagulls were giving a fascinating performance of fancy somersaults over the glistering, watery carpet.
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And I — what would I not have given for a bit of friendly wilderness, where, unseen, I might vent my joy in some mad freak, such as idiotically biting my hand; turning a somersault, or slashing at trees, in order to allay those exciting feelings that were well-nigh uncontrollable.
How I Found Livingstone
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In 1990 he became a prizewinner, at the Mondial du Cirque du Demain in Paris, with a performance including dancing and somersaulting on the Tight Wire.
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Other attractions include a team of unicyclists called the One Wheel Wizards, and the White Devils flying trapeze troupe who perform an extremely difficult triple somersault.
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Germans were always solemn; a pig turning somersaults could not make them smile.
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I just wanted you both to know that Wailer fell off the board while trying to do a back one-and-a-half somersault.
THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. II: STOP, DON'T STOP
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A passionate leap across a sofa back to reach a beloved becomes a clownish somersault along the entire length of the couch.
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Suppose that he happened to glance around and notice a monkey turning a somersault.
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Hamlet," and then create a revulsion of feeling by somersaulting over the centre-fire of the circle and standing on his head before it, grinning diabolically at the incensed pot?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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Dave got one young gangster round the waist and pitched him off in a somersault.
THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
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Chusovitina's full-twisting front somersault vault in open pike position earned her first place on that event.
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Our keep-fit sessions were such fun - we hopped on one leg, somersaulted, balanced and scissored and although you loved to show off your skills, you loved me joining in.
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When she wouldn't stop somersaulting and cartwheeling in the front room we decided to take her dancing.
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It is the creative equivalent of the gymnast's triple somersault.
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Our keep-fit sessions were such fun - we hopped on one leg, somersaulted, balanced and scissored and although you loved to show off your skills, you loved me joining in.
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When I stand up the room tips a little as if I'm wasted, and my stomach is currently turning somersaults.
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And if this is a trendsetter, our action sequences are not going to have beefy people flexing their muscles or lean and steely acrobats performing somersaults anymore.
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I would never backpack or turn a somersault or jump to the ground from even the most modest height or run the length of half a block.
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Rhea jumped up, kicking off from the demon's shoulders, turning a high somersault across the room.
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And a circus happens where and whenever some tatterdemalion body discards itself in leaps and somersaults.
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Linked together, the one standing on the shoulders of the other, they turned cartwheels, and did flips and somersaults, launching themselves into the air.
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They are the cynosure of all eyes with their remarkable somersaults cutting across each other's paths in perfect unison.
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But he couldn't outgallop the bullet that sent him in a complete somersault down the slope.
The Trail of the White Mule
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I dove to my left again, and this time rolled into a somersault that landed me in a thicket of mountain laurel at the base of the ridge.
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Wouldn't the unity of all things come to you, and wouldn't you chirrup like a bird, and buzz like a bee, and turn imaginary somersaults and dance and sing, and feel like cutting up "didoes," and talk a little high strung, and be chipper with the lowliest and level with the highest?
Brook Farm
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The only injuries this time are some pulled muscles in the back of my neck from somersaulting down the hill.
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While to the ordinary eye the witch is indistinguishable from those around her, to the priest she appears to be somersaulting through the air and turning cartwheels.
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The man was knocked somersaulting backwards on the ground from the force of my power.
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Though his past leaps of faith have had about as much grace as a jackknife into a leaf-covered pool, bringing Gibbs back has ‘reverse pike triple somersault’ written all over it.
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He was forty-eight, but he bent over the sack, applied a tentative, shifting grip that balanced it, and, with a quick heave, stood erect, the somersaulted sack of flour on his shoulder.
THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
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Waterfield still needed to hold his nerve on his final dive but got the job done with a score of 91.80 points for his back two-and-a-half somersaults, two-and-a-half twists piked to win gold with a total of 494.25.
Peter Waterfield holds his nerve to deny Tom Daley platform gold
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He saw the deer hurled into the air, its willowy body limply somersaulting like a stuffed toy.
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He crashed into the table, somersaulted over it and landed on the carpet.
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Somersault is the basic technique of Chinese blanket kungfu.
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That means not only hazardous vaults and triple somersaults.
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An acrobatic feat that made a terrific hit with the audience was the somersaulting.
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Level Three were the most difficult containing moves such as back flips, somersaults and full cartwheels.
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I did a neat backward somersault and landed in the river in a welter of blue and silver, unpleasantly aware I could not swim.
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It was a little maddening to kneel down as he knelt down, put my hands on the ground as he did, bend down on one arm as he did, and then flop over sidewise while he executed a graceful forward somersault.
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He launched himself off the roof, performed a double somersault and landed on his feet unharmed.
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Now a pirouette has been added to Korbut's loop and several young ladies do a backward somersault on the beam twice in a row.
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Stout concrete walls were knocked down, cars and trucks were jammed into trees, furniture and personal possessions, instantly transformed into useless detritus, were somersaulted down the streets, and tons of mud and sand clogged many of the avenues and alleyways.
Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm
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turn a somersault
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Yet the product that emerged, as the Russians soared and twisted and somersaulted, was one of grace and elegance and hard-to-imagine body control.
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Eventually they may learn to do a somersault in the water by adapting their land movements to the water, but that doesn't mean they are doing it as efficiently as an aquatic creature would do it.
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Bent - Body double Backward somersault with arms hanging is Huang Liping's expert trick on the parallel Bars.
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Finally he came down in a somersault and landed on one knee.
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He did somersaults, backflips, and other types of jumps.
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The hours pass upon the eastern turn my faith anew while I was interred there, until I somersaulted out of the deep waters.
42 Mirrors
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Wales, meanwhile, have serious doubts over their centre Jonathan Davies, whose excellent form in midfield at both club and international level has forced Warren Gatland and his coaching team into a few selectorial somersaults of late.
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Already, the 30 squad gymnasts, aged between six and 18, are perfecting backflips and somersaults, and are looking forward to showing them off in a competition next month.
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My intention was this: to do a round-off on to a trampette then tuck backwards into a somersault and land on my feet.
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An albicore a few cables-lengths to port had taken a flying leap from the flashing sea, turned a complete somersault and vanished.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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His heart turned a somersault at her use of his given name.
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With practice, the momentum created by the dolphin kick and hand movement initiating your somersault should allow you to land aggressively at the wall.
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I sang them the old hunting - song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think.
The Armourer's Prentices
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While the green car spun harmlessly to a halt, the red machine somersaulted up the sloping bank on the outside of the track, striking the wire fencing before falling back in a heap of disintegration.
When motor racing was a matter of life and death | Richard Williams
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A dozen years ago, Mary Lou Retton somersaulted her way into our consciousness, and a nation rejoiced.
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Everyone applauded again as the jester set off around the room, spinning the baton and throwing it high in the air, time and time again, before doing a cartwheel or a somersault and catching it perfectly.
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When we think of women swinging on bars, somersaulting on beams, tumbling on carpets and soaring over vaults at the Olympic Games, we do not necessarily think of Pamela Anderson.
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Fitzgerald and Boldin grabbed at Harrison as he did a somersault into the end zone.
Harrison's long run to salvation
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All of a sudden, Yianna was doing handsprings, Frank was performing no-handed cartwheels and Toni was doing somersaults in mid-air.
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I believe you can gyrate on the somersault, get your feet down as best as you can, and push off and go very fast off the wall.
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A tuck, three somersaults through the air, and she vaults into the hands of her husband.
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After scoring his spectacular debut goal, Pollock ran over towards Middlesbrough's travelling fans and did a somersault.
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The new fence is designed so that the top rail drops to one side when hit by a horse, saving the animal and rider from somersaulting.
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In another video, an empty car somersaulted down a river in Bennington.
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Once he bungled a somersault, but managed such a smooth entry into the next exercise that the spectators never suspected that anything was amiss.
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I hit him back and he somersaulted down the stairs.
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Tony jumped past me, somersaulting onstage, and straightening up with a flower between his teeth.
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They scrutinised every move with nervous excitement as Pete and diving partner Leon Taylor twisted and somersaulted in the air for each of the five dives during the 45 minute contest on Saturday night.
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I just wanted you both to know that Wailer fell off the board while trying to do a back one-and-a-half somersault.
THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. II: STOP, DON'T STOP
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Tricks and routines also have become drastically more complex and high-flying, with triple somersaults even on the beam now the norm.
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‘I loved all the princesses, and I couldn't believe how the dancers could do somersaults and cartwheels on ice while dressed up in costume,’ she gushed afterwards.
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And if this is a trendsetter, our action sequences are not going to have beefy people flexing their muscles or lean and steely acrobats performing somersaults anymore.
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I had just finished my third jump of the day, a double twist featuring both a frontward and backward somersault, and was sprawled out on the pillow in the recovery position.
Secret of the Super-small Superstar
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Her wingman obeyed, turning a somersault and ending up flying straight at the Flankers.
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She still has ambitious goals: reading, backward somersaults, swimming, tying shoes.
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Who cares whether he's turning somersaults or running off to the sideline to get water (actually he played pretty well).
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But the lawyers need to turn some somersaults before they can get there.
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Not even Rosalind, turning somersaults on the sonogram, had made Cynthia feel this vital, this necessary.
EVERY SECRET THING
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My classmate Dan invited us over today for a rainy day BBQ with his lovely wife, Julie, and daughter, Ruby, who entertained us with somersaults and her overall adorableness.
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She was so happy she turned three somersaults on the lawn.
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But it was the response to his Rivonia Trial speech, called throughout the world the I Am Prepared To Die Speech, which kind of somersaulted him and the African National Congress and the need to put an end to apartheid into the world consciousness.
Remembering Nelson Mandela's Pivotal Moment
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He did a brilliant backward somersault.
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Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
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One stood on another's shoulders and turned a backward somersault.
THREE IN ONE
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She started Hazel on some somersaults then dive rolls and had started on backwards walkovers, when she heard Hazel complain.
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Even as I scuttled away, the cabayo plunged straight into the brush, lost its footing where the bank dropped off, and somersaulted onto its back amid a crackle of stems and branches.
Fire The Sky
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The gymnast performed a somersault on the beam.
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Moving at a speed higher than most people comprehend, Dice rolled to the left to avoid the first bullet then somersaulted back onto the boot of the car.
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Moray eels shout at you in silent warning from their crevices and rays have been known to turn somersault.
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I flipped somersaults and bumped blindly into various other bodies and boards as I traveled toward shore underwater.
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They chattered in happy, squeaking voices, beating their tiny wings rapidly as they somersaulted in mid-air.
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Level Three were the most difficult containing moves such as back flips, somersaults and full cartwheels.
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The animal referred to above went a lovely purler with me this morning, turning a somersault and finishing by laying across my right leg.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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When I stand up the room tips a little as if I'm wasted, and my stomach is currently turning somersaults.
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Every minute of the training session is planned: she does warming up exercises slowly and thoroughly, does her pull ups on the wall bars, then to the trampoline for a few light and graceful leaps and somersaults.
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The car struck a row of trees before somersaulting on to its roof and returning spinning to the road.
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Kahn apparently also discredited Mandela as a "self-confessed liar and hitman" who had first implicated three UDM members in the killing and then "somersaulted" and implicated the six ANC members.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Failed attempts at somersaults and flips while on a trampoline may especially result in cervical spine injuries.
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And after you've rolled up, perhaps do a somersault, then maybe a backflip.
Times, Sunday Times
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With three points in it, Glasgow went on the attack, Henry somersaulting over a tackle to secure the result and the bonus point.
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Their coordination is less well-developed, too: they find it harder to turn somersaults or hold a pencil properly for long.
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Hurrying from the room, his mind turned dizzying somersaults with thoughts of his missing wife and what her reappearance might mean.
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Car parts were strewn and blood spattered on Solomon Hochoy Highway on Monday, as two cars collided and somersaulted, killing one man and injuring six people.
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While training he used to do the triple somersault on the floor.
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I ran into the hallway and almost somersaulted over the banisters.
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We have now rejuvenated the program in the floor exercises, long horse and in the rings, introducing new complex somersaults and pirouettes.
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When she wouldn't stop somersaulting and cartwheeling in the front room we decided to take her dancing.
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Some of them can turn complete somersaults, though this is mostly done in monoplanes, and seldom in a biplane, which is much more stable in the air.
Dick Hamilton's Airship, or, a Young Millionaire in the Clouds
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Hu rallied to win on his last dive, a backward double somersault with one twist.
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The gardener must also go through all of the movements performed by the scamp, who may jump "leapfrog" over any player in the circle, turn somersaults, crawl between the legs of a circle player, double unexpectedly on his path, circle around one of the players, or resort to any other device for making the chase difficult.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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He was awarded 9.80 points for his vault - a handspring somersault with forward salto.
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Our neighbor - a kind man, really - gritted his teeth and looked the other way as they somersaulted and tumbled on its velvety surface.
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And after you've rolled up, perhaps do a somersault, then maybe a backflip.
Times, Sunday Times
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He bit his lip, trying to avoid looking at either the ship or the sea itself; both were already making him nauseous and he could feel his stomach turning somersaults.
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One stood on another's shoulders and turned a backward somersault.
THREE IN ONE
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His routines now are far more daring than the cartwheels or even the basic somersaults that he learned with his first team, the Tallahassee Tumbling Tots.
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I sang them the old hunting-song, and they said I did it tunably, and, whereas they saw I could already dance a hornpipe and turn a somersault passably well, the leader of the troop, old Nat Fire-eater, took me on, and methinks he did not repent -- nor I neither -- save when I sprained my foot and had time to lie by and think.
The Armourer's Prentices
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Our keep-fit sessions were such fun - we hopped on one leg, somersaulted, balanced and scissored and although you loved to show off your skills, you loved me joining in.
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It is understood that the teenager was a front seat passenger in the car which careered off the narrow road and somersaulted before crashing into trees.
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Konnan and I teamed for a pair of catapult somersaults and a broncobuster on Hennig.
REY MYSTERIO BEHIND THE MASK
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In the vault, for instance, she performed the Tsukahara, a sideways handspring with back somersault which, until recently, was only ever executed by the men.
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Ted's stomach did a triple somersault with that one.
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A resident in Meggeson Avenue said: ‘I think the car knocked down a lamppost and somersaulted quite a few times.’
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I turned a somersault on the lawn.
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He popped into the air and flew over several disorderly piles of stuff, turning somersaults as he went.
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She then had a third vivid dream, in which she somersaulted – fatally – from a horse.
Amy Hardie: Yay! My dream didn't come true
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By day, eagles fly and bears waggle before the crowds, men somersaulting and jeweled, bedecked women of all ages eliciting loud shots of "beso" - kiss - from the eager crowd.
Nathaniel Loewentheil: Deviled Dancers, Drunken Pilgrimages and the Magic of Bolivia's Carnaval
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I remember the fans gasping at Lyukin's triple somersault in the floor exercises for the Moscow News prize.
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He did a triple somersault at Derby and I think he's done about seven somersaults, so he's doubled his ratio.
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Her heart did a complete somersault when she saw him.
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Various kinds of trills, grace notes, runs, and other species of fioriture, or vocal somersaults, were introduced in every song, in such profusion that the song itself was at last barely recognizable; and this kind of stuff the audiences of that time applauded frantically.
Chopin and Other Musical Essays
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The urge came over Owen to do something extremely unprofessional, cartwheels or somersaults in the office, anything to let out all of the pent up energy that had been welling up inside of him during this long, but fruitful day.
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Ella was racing around the room like a five year old doing cartwheels and somersaults across the carpeted floor.
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I felt like if he snapped his fingers, I would turn some wicked somersaults, spring off a trampoline, and dive into a routine directly from the page of a gymnastics handbook.
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Obi-Wan landed, then jumped again, somersaulting in midair and landing against Web's chest with both feet. The assassin flew back and hit a chunk of stone protruding from the wall. He lay still.
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For on 7 March, 1973, Kathy, who lived on Bury Road with her family, was lucky to escape with her life when her sports car skidded and somersaulted on a motorway approach road.
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One is hardly able to imagine a man making such somersaults, while tied to three-metre iron stilts, but he did just that.
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The bus plunged down the embankment, somersaulted twice and finally landed on its side.
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He had turned a complete somersault in the water beneath us, giving us a "grue" as we reflected what would have happened had he then chosen to come bounding to the surface.
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