dumbbell

Example Sentences

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The Dominicans celebrated home runs by posing with a dumbbell adorned with plantains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

“Man, I’ll be seeing his little Instagram posts, the benches, the dumbbell benches. Hey, he can get me whenever he’s ready.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

"The dumbbell thus acts a bit like the needle on a compass, allowing us to read off the z coordinate according to its orientation," says Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

Carrasco, 36, was lifting weights before Sunday’s game against Seattle when he set down a 50-pound dumbbell and it flipped over, landing on his pinky, Showalter said before New York played at Washington.

From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2023

I could tell he was in a deep sleep because his full weight squashed into my intestines like a five-hundred-pound dumbbell.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas