somersault

Example Sentences

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She must have done a double somersault off the backboard.

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My stomach is doing backflips and somersaults and cartwheels all at the same time.

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My old heart started turning somersaults; and something that felt like a thousand-legged centipede jiggled its way up my spine.

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Lots of room for Nim to float and somersault and stand on her hands, and for Fred to dash and dive and for Selkie to swish splash the water through the Keyhole Rock.

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By the time I sat down to dinner, that happiness was doing somersaults of excitement in my stomach.

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