asymmetric bars

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adverb, pl n

gymnastics

(functioning as plural) a pair of wooden or fibreglass bars placed parallel to each other but set at different heights, for various exercises
(functioning as singular) an event in a gymnastic competition in which competitors exercise on such bars

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How to use asymmetric bars in a sentence

Prosecutors wanted him to spend at least 10 years behind bars.
Abramoff’s Advice for Virginia’s New Jailhouse Guv|Tim Mak, Jackie Kucinich|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He later accepted a plea deal that put him behind bars for 25 years.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro|Bill Conroy|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yet we keep doing the cleanses, buying the meal replacement bars, and joining Weight Watchers.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Bars love to tell those stories: ‘So and so drank here, and George Washington slept here,’” Sismondo says.
The Bars That Made America Great|Nina Strochlic|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

When you look at the history of bars in America, they would tell people who to vote for, and they would.
The Bars That Made America Great|Nina Strochlic|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I queried; and as I asked the question I noticed for the first time the gilt bars on his coat sleeve.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Where the stone wall had to be left open for bar-ways, to drive through, he went to work and nailed up the bars.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
Their home from the outside looked like a prison, with iron bars before the door and lower windows.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
They fed me the corpses for a month, and I flung them out on my sand-bars, but their work went forward!
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
I keep a good blunderbuss loaded over the door, an' thieves would na' find it an easy job to get in through these iron bars.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie