How to Use handstand in a Sentence

handstand

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  • Some warmed up in loose cyphers, with head spins and handstands.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • As a bonus, Lee tossed in a graceful handstand at the start of the routine.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2021
  • By the end of the film, Ms. Veloz was doing a handstand on Walsh’s shoulders.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • My goal is to be able to float or jump into a handstand.
    — Bari Lieberman, Glamour, 7 July 2017
  • Midway, the athlete is in a handstand, with legs in full split.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The challenge calls for a person to put on a T-shirt while doing a handstand.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The vaulter jumps high into the air and pulls himself into a handstand as the pole starts to straighten.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2021
  • One 39-year-old elephant, Tess, can even do a handstand.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Grant does a handstand, Grant does a backflip, and love conquers all.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • My husband likes to do handstands at the airport while waiting for a flight.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
  • And when the time comes to scare off a predator, these little guys perform a handstand and kick out their back legs.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Then Landolphi swung her legs up in the air and did a handstand on Zeiger’s shoulders.
    — Jim Rendon, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
  • With her 8-year-old son River at the front of the board rowing, Daniela did a handstand featuring a bent leg.
    — Annie O’Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Vera Pluharova learned how to put on a T-shirt while doing a handstand.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Think of something that would be really cool to do: a handstand, a dance routine, a pull-up.
    — Liz Plosser, Good Housekeeping, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Enter the frog stand, then raise your legs overhead into a handstand.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The gymnast begins in a handstand position above the rail.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2021
  • Dawes also has a skill on the uneven bars named after her: a back giant with 1.5 turn in handstand.
    — Emily Adams, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
  • His legs spun clockwise as his arms marched between grips, ending in a handstand that gently dipped to the ground.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2021
  • Dressed in a red sweatshirt and denim shorts, Candace pushed her legs off a glass wall and into a handstand.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 9 July 2022
  • By the end of the afternoon, there are foot races and backflips and somersaults and handstand contests.
    — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Mortensen has a video of a young man doing a handstand under hypnosis.
    — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Things took a turn when Weyand transitioned into a handstand and fell on his back while Liukin giggled.
    — Haley Van Horn, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Painted on the side of a crumbling building, the piece depicts a gymnast doing a handstand on a pile of rubble.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The new work includes one of a girl gymnast performing a handstand on a pile of concrete rubble.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Video of hurdler Lolo Jones putting on two shirts and then taking a sip of wine while doing a handstand goes viral.
    — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2020
  • They were surrounded by eager male Marines, one of whom was doing a handstand.
    — Heather Mac Donald, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
  • Some of the poses were specifically to benefit the dogs, like this dog version of a handstand.
    — Amy Rushlow, SELF, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Giant rings were rolled out to represent the formation of Olympic rings, and actors were doing handstands inside the giant rings.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Aug. 2024
  • She was also shot doing handstands beside the cheeses, cartwheeling in their presence, and reclining next to a large chunk of parmesan, with tantalizing flakes where it had been hewn off from the reel.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024

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