How to Use somersault in a Sentence

somersault

noun
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  • The gymnast turned a somersault.
  • All of the divers added a double back somersault tuck to their dive list this year.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 9 May 2017
  • Which is when a player does a somersault on a throw-in.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • On a 1-0 pitch to Ian Happ, Suter lost his balance and did a perfect somersault off the mound.
    — Joe Totoraitis, Star Tribune, 12 Sep. 2020
  • There were quick surprises: The sight of wide open arms could very well lead to a somersault.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Suddenly, the big black wolf tripped over brush and rolled in a somersault.
    — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Lessard secured his win on his last dive, a back somersault with a full twist.
    — Randy McRoberts, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Near the end of her second somersault, Biles opens her tuck a little.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The key to her win came on her next-to-last dive, an inward 1½ somersault from the pike position.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • Graham hops onto the couch, does a somersault, lands on her back, flips over and crawls off the sofa.
    — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Instead she was pushed backward into the deep end and learned not just to swim but to do somersaults.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Moses converted — and marked the goal with a somersault — to put Nigeria back in control of the race for second place in the group.
    — Steve Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • Sixty-nine-year-old Bobbe, floating in the middle of the fuselage, curls up and tries a somersault.
    — Charles Fishman, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
  • The Biles on the vault is a round-off, into a back hand-spring with a half turn, completing the move by twisting twice in a somersault.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 22 July 2024
  • His head tore away, pulling his body into a somersault and flipping him on his back.
    — Azad Cudi, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • By the end of the afternoon, there are foot races and backflips and somersaults and handstand contests.
    — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
  • There were a couple of times when goal scorers did somersaults.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • The triple quad is a combination of a back 3 somersaults, with 4 twists in the free position.
    — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Victor Moses converted — and marked the goal with a somersault — to put Nigeria back in control of the race for second place in the group.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • The match was brought to new heights when Mysterio hit a springboard somersault off the top rope and crashed onto Malenko outside the ring.
    — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Klein closes out the track with a backward somersault, guitar in hand.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 3 June 2018
  • Corona's shot hit Villafana and bounced up to Dwyer, who volleyed in with his left foot from 8 yards, then did a backward somersault.
    — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2017
  • Nathan somersaults into my lap, right over the symbol board.
    — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • Within seconds the soldier fell, the metal collapsing as the statute did a somersault against the stone pedestal.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Once on the ground, the goofball somersaults away from the ladder, only to grab the bottom at the last second and climb up again to meet the friend who abandoned it in its time of need.
    — Alexis Hobbs, Woman's Day, 23 Sep. 2015
  • Based in Florida, Caceres is known as the first flyer ever to perform both a triple and a triple-and-a-half somersault in the same act.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Nearby, a group of younger kids kicked a soccer ball while the more limber showed off their somersault or spider walk skills.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 July 2021
  • The first involves various crawls that warm up the muscles and might even include somersaults and frog hops.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
  • That surprised him, given his season track record and a bad landing on a somersault catch in last week’s Bills loss.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Biles is the only woman to do a double pike, a double somersault with her body in a piked position, in competition.
    — USA TODAY, 21 July 2024

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