roundhouse
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My roundhouse kicks were decent, but I couldn’t do a somersault without wanting to vomit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He left the Air Force in 1962 and set up a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, finding his calling in teaching and delivering roundhouse kicks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Each roundhouse roof had three layers: insulating straw topped by turf and completed with clay -- making them warm and waterproof but still well ventilated.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
In the third quarter, he picked off a Washington pass and went in for an uncontested roundhouse dunk.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
He tied one end of a hawser to a pillar and passed the other about the roundhouse top, taking the slack up, so that no one’s toes could touch the ground.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Further samples in the coming months will determine if the cistern dates back to the same period as the roundhouses.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
"In a freezing winter, with winds cutting across the Fens, these roundhouses would have been pretty cosy," said CAU project archaeologist Dr Chris Wakefield.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
They fought with jabs from a kid quarterback, roundhouses from acrobatic receivers and knockdowns by giant linemen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2017
Paris is not far; we pass the freight-depots, by the roundhouses where the engines roar in red vapor, getting up steam; the train stops; they take up the tickets.
From Sac-Au-Dos 1907 by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
