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Men's pommel horse final: The Arena on Monday, 27 July.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Conrad leans in confidentially: “I have been asked if that’s really Dave doing the pommel horse, and my answer is, ‘I don’t know.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Once the glasses came off, the 25-year-old turned into a pommel machine, and delivered a nerveless performances in both the team and individual events.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024

The Rubik's Cube-solving 'pommel horse guy' stared deep into the pommel horse, as he quietly waited his turn.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024

Train Ear and Jelly Bones hopped over turnstiles like gymnasts vaulting a pommel horse.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

In the team finals however, a nightmarish set on pommels sent the Americans tumbling to fifth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Hilts and pommels were and are the most common decoration, for dragonglass is too brittle to make a useful crossguard.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017

The 1996 Olympic pommel horse champion Donghua Li performed a surprisingly moving routine to pommels attached to the balance beam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2016

The 7th Century hoard of 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses was valued at £3.285m.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2015

They hand their burdens to others while they mount, then take the sacks again and loop them over the pommels of their saddles.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

And after I had pommeled off the two pounds she'd gained at a twelve-course dinner the night before, she begins to tell me of her charities.

From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

The workmen, seeing the reinforcements, beat a retreat, carrying their sadly pommeled comrades with them, but their insulting language was not restricted until they had passed out of hearing.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

David cried, pleaded, pommeled the Phoenix with his fists.

From David and the Phoenix by Joan Raysor

All the more reason for bringing the undertaking to a swift conclusion: wherefore I pommelled and spurred my hapless steed along with a ruthlessness of which at any other time I should be heartily ashamed.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

Eustace instantly let go, and Peter stood for a second staring down at the two red rings round his wrists, then, as Eustace turned unconcernedly away, dashed at his back and pommelled it.

From Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

A man is apt to think that his insurance is settled and done with, when he has been pommelled about by the doctors and approved by the board.

From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

To get well pommelled for his pains, and do no good to any one, himself included.

From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson

The invaders, pushed and pommelled by dint of such audacity and hard hitting, were cooped up like sheep into narrower and narrower space.

From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns

Old friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

"A generous fellow plays for the play, a sordid one for the stake; an old fogy sits by and smokes the pipe of tranquillity, while Jack and Tom are pommeling each other in the ring."

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

He caught the subway with the crowd of stockbrokers who came romping out of the stock exchange like released schoolboys after the day's tension, pommeling and shoving each other with released glee.

From Making Money by Owen Johnson

“In my castle,” says Joinville, “whosoever uses bad language receives a good pommeling, and this has nearly put down that bad habit.”

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Hilda, in the excitement of the moment, had stopped to exchange a word with the doctor's coachman as he stood by the horses, pommelling his chest and clapping his hands.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

A bag stuffed with hay is so round that it is very difficult to keep upon it without rolling off, and there was much pommelling and flattening before the beds were at all tenable.

From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon

“He's afraid,” said the boy who had advised the more severe pommelling, “old 'fraid-cat!”

From Five Little Peppers at School by Hermann Heyer

Upon recovering from the effects of my pommelling, I sprang from bed and donned my clothes with all speed, and then went to pay my friend Mr Wilson the compliments of the season.

From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Why," said Phil, "I couldn't believe my eyes at first; but true it was, all the same,—there was our gentle 'rosebud' pommelling away at a fellow nearly twice his size!

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton