high dive

Example Sentences

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World Through a Lens: Is this the most picturesque high dive?

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022

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

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

But this, scaling the ladder for the high dive drives me to distraction.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes