DIVE in a Sentence

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69 example sentences for DIVE, such as:

1. She dived in off the high board.
2. The plane went into a steep dive.
3. The diver dived off the high board.
4. The plane made a dive to a lower altitude.
5. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dive
 v.  plunge into water
 v.  drop steeply
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
2  Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
3  And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
4  But in my time a little Eyetalian tried the high dive, and it turned out different with him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
5  After supper I used to catch up my cap, stick my hands in my pockets, and dive through the willow hedge as if witches were after me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
6  Then I made a dive for the open window, struck the wire screen, knocked it out, and tumbled after it into the yard.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
7  Sam, with frantic ejaculations, made a dive at the reins, but only succeeded in brushing the blazing palm-leaf afore-named into the horse's eyes, which by no means tended to allay the confusion of his nerves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  The black-hole of that ship warn't a strong one, to a judge of black-holes that could swim and dive.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLII
9  I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then started for Highgate.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
10  Examine the past and the present, and endeavor to dive into futurity, and then say whether I am not a divine instrument.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 112. The Departure.
11  He bent his head a little towards me, and with a single hasty glance seemed to dive into my eyes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  The thoughts circled and swooped above her, dived down and drove tearing claws and sharp beaks into her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
14  Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg, now took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how matters were, dived down and disappeared.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
15  Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  There would be a dive for the bar as soon as the show finished.
2  I can dive under the water without any facilities but I can't stop down there too much time.
3  Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
4  The plane made a dive to a lower altitude.
5  The plane went into a steep dive.
6  Some species of duck dive for food, while others dabble for plants and insects near the surface.
7  You dive in first and test the temperature of the water.
8  When told to dive off the high board, she did not falter, but proceeded at once.
9  Koryon flapped forward, dropping slightly to gain velocity from the dive.
10  She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves.
11  I was following the man when he dived into a small restaurant and I lost track of him.
12  He dived into the water and kept under for a while.
13  They dived from the bridge and rescued the drowning woman.
14  The diver dived off the high board.
15  She dived in off the high board.