Sentence examples for somersaulting from inspiring English sources

They probably sneered even harder when I whooped down the water slide from the top deck, somersaulting into the pea-soup-coloured water.

2) is fine; 1) you can live with; 2) and 1) together spell this word: "Arrrgh!" There are some fearful noises in life - dentists' drills, say, or the theme music that means My Family is about to start - but there's little to beat being upside-down in mid-air, doing a somersaulting break-fall, and your head suddenly filling with the sound of your own groin ripping apart.

But the tornado, heading east, whirled round suddenly to head north, sending his car somersaulting for half a mile.

ONLY politicians with inspiration, with soaring somersaulting flair, can aspire to stand out from the ordinary cynicism of their trade and achieve true brazenness.

Some somersaulting left-wing commentators who were for Mr Brown before they were against him, and are now for him again explain his inconsistency and their own as the unpredictable result of historical lightning, an act of the political gods.

Somersaulting looped track rides had first been attempted in Paris in the middle of the century.

Somersaulting and other tricks were exhibited before World War I, but it was not until about 1950 that such stunts (aerials) were popularized by Norwegian Stein Eriksen, who won a gold medal in the giant slalom at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo.

Most seldom move; some occasionally creep very slowly or move in a slow somersaulting fashion.

There are several routines, some of which must include "human pyramids" that are created by the gymnasts and must be held for four seconds to be scored; the pairs exercise must contain at least six partner-balance elements held for two seconds; and throws with twisting and somersaulting interspersed with tumbling elements must also be included.

The Cretan bull dancer of ancient Mediterranean culture, playing with the animal by somersaulting over his back, expresses a conception of man's relation to this powerful animal and the forces of fecundity and death that it symbolizes different from that of the Spanish bullfighter who slays the beast.

In other cases, the anemones take the initiative, somersaulting from a now-empty shell onto the newly obtained one.