high dive
Example Sentences
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“Poguemahone” is like a high dive: The toughest part of reading it might be convincing your feet to leave the board.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022
Each new play or film, he added, is “a high dive into something yet unexplored.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
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
I drew in my breath as if I were standing on a high dive and took a tentative step toward her, still in the dense shade, still hidden, still safe.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
