high dive
Example Sentences
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Last week Collins had talked about a funny memory with the Wolverines, how Harbaugh finished a spring practice by doing a cannonball off the high dive at the school’s pool.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025
He was often faulted for dipping his toe into mature themes without risking a high dive into full-scale tragedy, and not risking more politically or socially daring plays.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2018
Graduating back then felt a bit like leaping off a high dive only to realize someone had drained the water out of the pool.
From Slate • May 23, 2018
In taking on the issue of crime and gentrification in a single column, I climbed the journalistic equivalent of an Olympic high dive and failed.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2017
His eyes were shut, like the eyes of a boy jumping feet first off the high dive.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
