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
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
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
