How to Use uneven bars in a Sentence

uneven bars

noun
  • Lee earned three medals—gold in the team event and a bronze in the all-around and in the uneven bars final.
    — Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Lee wants to win gold in her signature event, the uneven bars, and in the team event.
    — Christine Yu, SELF, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Why Suni Lee’s uneven bars bronze means more this time around.
    — Rachel G Bowers, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The home team starts on vault while the visiting team begins on the uneven bars.
    — Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Suni Lee won bronze in the uneven bars yesterday, bringing her medal count for the Paris Games to three.
    — Axios Twin Cities, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
  • So far, Suni has earned the highest score on the uneven bars during this all-around final.
    — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Teammate Sunisa Lee came back from kidney disease to win team gold and bronze medals in the all-around and uneven bars.
    — Axios, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The uneven bars podium has a new leader: Qiu Qiyuan of China.
    — NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Douglas struggled on beam both nights of trials, with a fall each night, but her strength on uneven bars won her the spot on the team.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In the all-around final, gymnasts must compete on all four events: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • However, her Paris prospects are still promising due to her medal potential on the balance beam and the uneven bars.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 June 2024
  • Biles qualified in first place for the all-around, vault, floor exercise and balance beam finals and in fifth place for the uneven bars final.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • McClendon received a gold medal on the uneven bars and a silver medal on the balance beam at the competition.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2023
  • The American icon won five medals at the Games, including two silvers, for team and vault, and two bronzes, for uneven bars and floor exercise.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Masconomet’s Bella Misiura finished fourth in the all-around and won the uneven bars.
    — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Simone Biles kept it real while doing her makeup for the uneven bars final on Aug. 4.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The uneven bars in my day were situated much more closely together, with the supports held to the floor by sandbags or weights.
    — Robin Huebner, Twin Cities, 28 June 2024
  • Jones returned to compete on uneven bars, but eventually pulled out of the trials and did not compete on the second day.
    — Alice Park / Minneapolis, Minn., TIME, 1 July 2024
  • Sunday’s uneven bars final – which Lee won bronze in – was the only event Biles did not participate in.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Douglas, however, had a rough start on the uneven bars and decided to withdraw from the other events during the U.S. Classic.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 May 2024
  • The pinnacle came during the bronze medal performance of U.S. gymnast Suni Lee on the uneven bars, which drew 35.4 million viewers.
    — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Without knowing the true severity of her injury, Jones pushed through her uneven bars routine and earned the highest score on the apparatus of the night.
    — Deanna Taylor, Essence, 1 July 2024
  • Locklear was a two-time national uneven bars champion when, in 2016, she was named an alternate for the Olympic team.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Yet the reigning world all-around bronze medalist — whose high-flying routines on the uneven bars have gone viral — says there’s always room for improvement.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
  • Keleti won a gold medal in the floor exercise at the Helsinki Games, a silver in the team competition and two bronze medals for the uneven bars and the team portable apparatus event.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Graduate student Chae Campbell dropped to the floor during her uneven bars routine.
    — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The women’s gymnastics teams will compete across four events: vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
    — Vic Verbalaitis, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
  • The downtown home of the Lakers and Kings has more seats and, because it was designed to accommodate a hockey rink, more floor space for gymnastics’ multiple events, such as the vault and the uneven bars.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • On Saturday, the gymnast competes in the vault and uneven bars finals, followed by the balance beam and floor exercise finals on Sunday.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The uneven bars have historically been the U.S. team's weakest event, opening the door for teams with strong bar workers, like Russia and China, to gain momentum.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024

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