diving dress
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Moran, coming aft, felt the bag, and looked at the diving dress with longing, but he supported Jimmy’s decision.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
A diving dress and equipment weighs about l75 lb, including a 40 lb lead weight carried by the diver on his chest, a similar weight on his back, and l6lb of lead on each boot.
From The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Adams, Henry C.
Benito, invariably very cool once his resolution was taken, commenced to put his idea into execution, and got into the diving dress.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules
The disposition of the screws corresponds with that of the holes in the india-rubber collar of the diving dress described below.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Still he might go down, and Jimmy knew that it is hard to recover one’s balance in a diving dress.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
