How to Use clean and jerk in a Sentence

clean and jerk

noun

• There are two Olympic lifts: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
  — Arianna Vedia, Dallas News, 20 July 2021
• Also, Olympic lifting, with the clean and jerk and the snatch.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 26 July 2022
• His combined 313kg in the the snatch and clean and jerk also set an Olympic record.
  — Alyssa Hertel, USA TODAY, 25 July 2021
• Each lifter gets three attempts for each of the two techniques, the bench press and clean and jerk.
  — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Olympic weightlifting consists of three snatch attempts and three clean and jerk.
  — Rick Armstrong, Aurora Beacon-News, 30 June 2018
• Jourdan Delacruz of the United States was third after the snatch portion of the contest but failed on all three or her lifts in the clean and jerk.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
• Saturday’s silver medalist, Mirabai of India, failed to make a clean and jerk attempt at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 July 2021
• Lifting a personal best 114kg in the clean and jerk to defeat Canada's Tali Darsigny.
  — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 8 Apr. 2018
• Hearn said Smith could hoist 315 pounds in the clean and jerk, and competed in the state championship in weightlifting during the football offseason.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
• Other examples include Olympic lifts (i.e., snatch and clean and jerk), the squat jump (loaded or unloaded), and even the kettlebell swing.
  — Men's Health, 31 May 2022
• Athletes must successfully attempt the snatch before proceeding to the clean and jerk.
  — Arianna Vedia, Dallas News, 20 July 2021
• Jourdan Delacruz, a weightlifter from north Texas, was headed toward a bronze medal in the 49-kg division before failing to convert her three attempts to clean and jerk, her second discipline of the day.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Assured of silver for his country's first medal in Tokyo, Mayora added his own flourish with a failed attempt to break Shi's record of 198kg for the clean and jerk, then signed off the competition with a backflip on stage.
  — James Ellingworth, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• Muattar Nabieva led the competition with a snatch lift of 98kg but was 9kg behind Chinshanlo on the clean and jerk and placed fourth, missing the podium by one kilogram.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
• Assured of silver for his country’s first medal in Tokyo, Mayora added his own flourish with a failed attempt to break Shi’s record of 198 kilograms for the clean and jerk, then signed off the competition with a backflip on stage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
• On Sunday, Google honored Kono on what would have been his 91st birthday with a Doodle animation depicting the clean and jerk, one of the more common weightlifting exercises.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2021
• With most large-scale national and world meets there are medals given for the heaviest snatch, heaviest clean and jerk and best overall total.
  — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026