How to Use parallel bars in a Sentence
parallel bars
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Davis has been working out with parallel bars for more than two years.
—Jenny McCoy, SELF, 21 June 2018
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However, the event does not require strength holds like the parallel bars or the still rings.
—Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 27 June 2021
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Richard hopes to qualify for the Olympics in team, all-around, floor, vault, parallel bars and high bar.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 19 June 2024
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Muldauer begins on parallel bars, while Malone starts on high bar.
—Emily Leiker, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
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Yang, who finished with a bronze, is wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his second-to-last routine, the parallel bars.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
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Yang, who finished with a bronze, is wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his second-to-last routine, the parallel bars.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
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Gymnasts will learn the fundamentals and work on floor, vault, parallel bars and balance beam.
—Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
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Fedun did push-ups on the parallel bars to demonstrate his strength, but he got winded after only a few strides on his full legs.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
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Paige Yu took first all-around, first in beam, second in the vault, first in the uneven parallel bars and third in floor at the state meet.
—cleveland, 13 Dec. 2021
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Dimitrios Loundras from Greece performed on the parallel bars, and his team came in third.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
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His score on parallel bars is the highest in the nation, while his floor exercise score is the second highest.
—Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
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Hong became the third American to sail through parallel bars, and Richard was a star on high bars and on floor.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 July 2024
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In his final event, the parallel bars, Wiskus began his routine just as the other competitors had stopped.
—Candace Buckner, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
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It was restored in 1999, and it’s now filled with kids and adults enjoying its swing sets, rings and ropes course and parallel bars.
—Laura Randall, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
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Bower made top five on three events — pommel horse, floor and vaulting — but 10th on high bar and 14th rings and parallel bars.
—Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2021
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The men compete in the floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar.
—Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2019
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Thom Browne doesn’t use a three-stripe design but for its activewear uses one that features four parallel bars in a pattern of red, white and blue.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 July 2024
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Britain won its second gold of the championships as Joe Fraser scored 15 points to win on parallel bars.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2019
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Lindsay Kern of Brecksville placed second behind Thomas in the uneven parallel bars.
—Cameron Fields, cleveland, 1 Mar. 2020
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The senior won individual honors in the vault, all-around, uneven parallel bars, and tied for third in the floor exercise.
—Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2021
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His father built parallel bars out of plastic pipe, and as Charley walks hanging on to those, his parents hand him toys to encourage him to hold the bar with just one hand.
—Denise Grady, New York Times, 24 June 2019
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The beloved American gymnast Sam Mikulak flipped off the parallel bars, stuck the landing and blew a kiss toward the camera.
—Claire Galofaro, ajc, 26 July 2021
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Brieley Aich powered South’s 10-point win over Dimond by winning titles in the vault and uneven parallel bars.
—Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2019
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On Thursday, Briones was third on high bar, fourth on floor exercise, fifth on vault, sixth on rings, 10th on parallel bars and 11th on pommel horse.
—Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
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Later that day, Pan American all-around bronze medalist Yul Moldauer secured his third medal of the week, winning gold on the parallel bars.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
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Hunter Simpson finished just ahead of Reilly on the parallel bars, earning his first individual silver medal.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
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The rebar in the Champlain Towers South slabs is a complex mesh, with crisscrossing sets of long, parallel bars set into a plane near the top of the slab and more reinforcement close to the bottom.
—New York Times, 3 July 2021
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Advertisement Archival footage of the show depicts trainers screaming at contestants and contestants vomiting on treadmills and falling while trying to do workouts on parallel bars.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
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On the men’s side, 18-year-old Maksim Kan claimed a pair of silver medals on pommel horse and still rings, while Ori Reilly secured silver on horizontal bar and bronze on parallel bars.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
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Silver medalists Brandon Dang (pommel horse) and Kameron Nelson (floor, vault), and bronze medalist Donnell Whittenburg (rings, parallel bars) round out the team.
—Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
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