Example Sentences

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The team’s dismounts were nearly perfect against Nebraska, especially on the balance beam.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

It’s around 1919 and Ernest is wearing his World War I uniform when he dismounts a train in Fairfax, an Oklahoma boomtown where luxury cars rumble down dirt roads.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

By now, he may have learned the wisdom of George Ball, the Kennedy administration diplomat who opposed the escalation of the Vietnam War: "He who rides the tiger cannot choose where he dismounts."

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2022

She has two tumbling pass dismounts named after her in the sport’s Code of Points.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2021

In the final rounds, some of us went crooked on bars or wobbled on beam or took little hops on our dismounts.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles