high dive
Example Sentences
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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
The high dive is scariest the first time.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2016
After a high dive while wearing a metal crown in the studio's hit "Million Dollar Mermaid," a stunt replicated in "Hail, Caesar!,"
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2016
In it, the boy decides to jump off the high dive for the first time.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2015
He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
