high dive
Example Sentences
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Each new play or film, he added, is “a high dive into something yet unexplored.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 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
There, he became known — widely — for climbing to the top of the high dive and roaring.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2016
In truth I felt as if my life was stranded out on the high dive, about to leap into unknown waters.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
