Sentence examples for barely dives from inspiring English sources

We turn the page, dawn is (beautifully) breaking, the mouse is poised, apparently listening.... Good thing there is a hole in that fallen tree on the far right, because on the next page the mouse barely dives in when the owl swoops.

In the crowded pool, his dives barely caused a splash.

The bar was a dive, barely more than the width of a long hallway.

Stellar starting pitching and a much-improved bullpen put the Indians into the American League Central Division lead — barely — over the nose-diving Tigers.

It's the same as the tennis ball that drives weightlessly off the very centre of your racquet, the dive that barely ruffles the water.

But just because the stock dove, then recovered, then dove, then barely got back to square one, doesn't mean we don't still have that same intuition.

The whale shudders and dives, and you barely have time to glimpse the tag on its back before the animal is enveloped by the ocean.

The young flanker picked up and dived in with barely a hand on it.

The patrons in Fortitude Valley institution, the scuzzy rock dive Ric's, barely have time to register what's happening before it's over, leaving behind a cluster of throbbing heads and bemused smiles.

And most of us in this broken world are barely getting by, so you dive into this horrid music business mess determined to do your part to make it change, but then nothing changes.

Flanker White, discarded by the Blues two years ago, could scarcely conceal his delight as he dived over with barely a hand laid on him for the fifth.