high dive

Example Sentences

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Last week Collins had talked about a funny memory with the Wolverines, how Harbaugh finished a spring practice by doing a cannonball off the high dive at the school’s pool.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

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

In it, the boy decides to jump off the high dive for the first time.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2015

But during his first year at the United States Military Academy, it was swim or quit, since every plebe is required to jump off a high dive with a weighted pack, boots and rifle.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014

But this, scaling the ladder for the high dive drives me to distraction.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes