dive
Example Sentences
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If you're desperately looking for work or utterly miserable in your current role, it can be tempting to dive straight into applying for any job - ignoring personal happiness.
From BBC
He played the blues harmonica between dives and told me he had learned to act at the Jewish community center in the Bronx.
Strikingly, “No Other Choice” plays like a melding of his different eras, once again diving into his characters’ rotten souls while flexing sumptuous craft and bitter commentary.
From Los Angeles Times
“Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just like be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But it’s always there.”
From MarketWatch
Root eventually offered a leading edge to a diving Neser in the bowler's follow-through, part of England's final collapse of 4-9.
From BBC
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