How to Use gymnast in a Sentence

gymnast

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  • Suni Lee was the young gymnast who won the all-around gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in March 2021.
    — Jason Randall, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • How does your training as a dancer and a gymnast come to bear?
    — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Hilliard is one of the Black female gymnasts who paved the way for their success.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • As far as is known, the gymnast still resides at this home.
    — Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 26 July 2024
  • The Deerfield linebacker has been a gymnast and a wrestler too.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Now, the legendary gymnast is on the mend and ready to open up about her recent health scare.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • Others, like Richard, had to dip into their pockets for the chance to go against the best gymnasts in the world.
    — Will Graves, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Hersey freshman Nate Mabry wasn’t born to be a gymnast, but he was destined to be a star in the sport.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • The gymnast debuted the piece at the 2024 Olympics last August.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Biles would be 27 years old at the start of the Paris Games, an age by which most Olympic gymnasts have long since retired.
    — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In the Instagram photo, Owens, 26, dips the Olympic gymnast for a smooch.
    — PEOPLE.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Wilborn: Is there a black girl gymnast group chat somewhere?
    — al, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Being a gymnast was always in the cards for Jordyn Wieber.
    — April Wallace, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The maneuver will be named the Biles II – the fifth skill named after the American gymnast.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • More gymnasts for the team are expected to be announced.
    — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Not strong like a powerlifter, but strong like a gymnast.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Her nipples would be like erasers on her chest, her shoulders pulled back like a gymnast’s.
    — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Chellsie Memmel, a former gymnast who was part of the 2003 squad that won its first world title, now serves as a coach.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The gymnasts who won the men’s team gold in Tokyo as well as three individual medals?
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • On January 23, the 20-year-old Olympic gymnast posted a carousel of four short videos of her training.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The gymnast, who’s already won three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, fell off the balance beam during her routine.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The student gymnast couldn't compete in any of her meets or see her teammates and friends in person.
    — Bydr. Jennifer Ashton,glenn Ruppel,ivan Pereira, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • As a Black gymnast growing up, being one of few was normal.
    — Onnie Willis Rogers, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, one of us is the greatest gymnast of all time and the other of us is pecking these words out in the wee hours like one of those cat typing gifs.
    — Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • Biles will headline the field of the country’s top gymnasts at the Olympic trials, her final step in earning a trip to her third Olympics.
    — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The 46-year-old gymnast received a standing ovation at the Tokyo Olympics last summer.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to be Simone Biles' time to cement herself as the greatest gymnast of all-time.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Simone Biles returns to the screen in a behind-the-scenes look at the superstar gymnast's Olympic run in Paris this summer.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The gymnast got to play a zombie-like figure who walks on his hands in a contemporary number that more than made up for his bottom-of-the-leaderboard scores from last week.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024

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